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' ,’iSinsinayyc build a world of light, t‘X)f wondrous sights and souuds 'Where, ’mid the joys which angels know, 7 'trhe peace of God abounds. rtaEMAK WITH A HOLE IS MIS H£.iD ■;!. [Tho Overland can now be Obtained at seve- Kil vof our newspaper and bookstores. Tlio July number has a number of new and notice able papers. . ’• “The Cruise of the ‘Monadnoek 3 ” contains, among other interesting incidents, the story of apoorFrench convict who escaped to one of the vessels of our monitor fleet, m 1866, from Abo penal settlement at Guiana, but who had to be remanded to the bagne, and who was 'promptly . shot., “Chinese ‘Funeral Baked ' Meats’" is the title of one of the Overland’s over-welcome chapters about the Mongolian vdSiheflf ;: ih'C&Bfforain; it. contains a detailed account of she various ceremonies incident to, the ; meraSscy service of those strange people, all of them remarkably to their credit, flaiu.other cojKjncuons papers are “'What our University shank! teach.'’“The Real Estate Mania,” and “The lust, Tie.” The best story »(there are no continued ones in the Overland: each number is complete in itself) is the fol lowing, which, though it prepares the expec - ration for a stronger catastrophe, is well told:] THE MAX WITH A HOLE IX HIS HEAD. • r When the noon-day summer sun pours its rays into the shallow hollow of Mooney Flat, it exceeding uncomfortable and heated place. On all sides rise tlie dull, dry ridges of those ... lesser heights of the Sierra Nevada, known as ■ "the foot-hills, crowned with a sparse growth of scrubby oaks and pines—and scarcely hiding the bricky-red soil, parched anti baked by the y logg summer heats. The dry grass shades off feeble tones of the’ foliage into the buff ’’ lajad white dust of tlm-only road that wiiids ttihough tlie straggling village. Here and there •n the hill-sides aie gaping, empty mouths of disused' and useless tunnels—dumb orators that preach to the passer-by of man’s hopes and' man’s, disappointments. Before' are empty houses, once tenanted by the who had hoped to , 'it rich” in those tunnels whicli now yawn wearily on the bare slopes above; and here and there are dotted in a few habits Moris of those who earn a precarious living in the gold diggings, which still lure on the work era in the : gulches and creeks that run among the serrated ridges around tlie flat valley in ■which the village lies. The settlement lias a sorrowful'and seedy look. And when the Ne vada stage dashes through the place, going down at morning, or going up at night, it is pitiful to see the dejected ah of unresisted de eay into which it relapses as soon as the slight \ agitation of its temporary wakefulness has 'passed away. The unpainted miners’ cabins, brown with age and warped with’’dryness; the ; dull dustiness which, pervades the village; the frayed-out and unraveled appearance of the groups'of houses; the utter absence of all ver dnre—these all make the barren, lifeless little hamlet'a? most uninviting spot. And as Obed Murch sat sprawled out on a huge 'granite bowlder at the top of Poverty Ridge, his rock-liammer in one hand aud\ his tamping-iron in the- other, he thought That Mooney Flat had never looked so repulsive, so . unlike his native village of Penobscot, inMaine, as now. The sun poured wearyingly down ■ into the flat basin below him, deluging the ■whole hollow with blinding light. Not a breath of air was stirring; and from the lagged chimneys of the shanties rose straight Up the Yihin blue smoke that told of twelve o’clock I dinners within. A few panting goats were L huddled under the shade of a lone pine-tree in the midst of the village—a sign post for the whisky-sliop, and crowned with a topmast which had once supported a rather worn .national flag. Obed could see across the hot /waste of hill below liim the door of his humble geabin wide open; the wilite table-cloth gleam "ing within, and Priscilla flitting to and fro. /Obed was a family-man, and had married id Ptiscillatwo years ago, when lie was getting f. ejat lumber at Puget Sound. And as he lifted kytp Pis hammer to strike a few more blows on rWtbe tamping-iron.lie looked dowii at the granite bowlder on which he sat, and wondered if ever ■j&e should earn a 1 better home for her than she in dull Mooney Flat, where he was stone, and generally “lumping about” a livelihood. lie sighed drearily; and, as ,of the poor prospect before him, he . awkward sideling blow with his there was a tear in his eye, bothered him. There was oi smoke—a. tearing shriek and before Obed March - tear from his eye, lie lay flat on heels in the air, and a clean his chin to the top of his tamping-iron had gone brain, skull, and scalp. verdict of a rough miner who, his comrades from the gulch premature explosion of Obed’s catastrophe. And to %vas as hear Ms grave as be without having exchanged aji for the spotless raiment in last resting- - a little subdued by this of their neighbor, tenderly and carried Ily Fender loitering along regard ing the fatal tool in if a man could live twenty-two inches long 'flick in diameter, had gone was still alive. When door to wave a towel that his dinner was bringing home her behind like a soli-" exactly what had' hap into the against wall, fied the' corner when the sad pro and crowded “Is lie the JSb&. helped.. toJay JiethiJsbMMtgenUjf on;bts ' bed, and, tumingito the]Jjlst speaker, shesaiq: '‘‘Now you, , Jothnun- jest “you get : £squjre/T}iom-, top’s jtohyj'tmd TOde oveft to Timbucfooajjfer Dr./Otis’ as*bnick Ite God ’U let you.”,.^otham f departed stro.!glit;wjdt)id'S}qU,!re’B. y&jpvt why' pire Banclr' dtftvn’ : by the.,-,: bedside and bathed her husband’s face in spirits of camphor. This was all the poor woman could do; and the gossips, who . gathered in to sympathize with the mourner, ' curiously eyed the round hole in the top of his head—but suggested no remedy nor other re storative. Obed lay motionless, but not,quite. ■ breathless; and the silent group waited for the doctor—a mighty man of physic, who had brought -many a hopeless case from death’s door before now.' ’ / It was dark when , Dr, Otis, after a long and exhausting attendance by the-bedside of the supposed dying man, stepped out into the ■cool evening air. Ohcd’s -me had been can vassed in every cabin of the village;' and 1 notic ing but a : sublime confidence in Dr. Otis’s power to yvotffc miracles had prevented the pop ulaee from sending out two of their number to Dead Mail’s Gulch to dig a grave. . Three or four miners and axemen sat whittling on the logs as the doctor came out; and Hy Fen der asked: “Well, ■< now; has: he passed in his checks ?” The doctor smiled good-naturedly, and said: “It would be no surprising thing, if'Obed Mureli would outliye'youyet,Hiram.’’ •‘ “Wliat—with a hole,in his head!”./ ■, a bole in bis head from bottom to topi and clean through the brain at that. : You see, the iron-was small and smooth; 1 it parted the formations of the; brain, * hut no large blood-vessels, did not injure the cerebral organs, and left him only senseless. I believe he will recover/’ , ‘Well boys,” said , Jotham Snowman, “I guess'we 1 won’t dig that grave to-nigfit;‘ and some of you fellers, had better lay round here to-night in case you’re-wanted.”. That night. ObcdMureb squeezed liis wife’s hand when site whispered lor him to give a sign .if he recognized her voice. The next day he was fed with a weak brotli of chicken— though ’ the wound in liis mouth pained him excessively! And in a month afterwards he was sitting in the doorivay, with ail his faculties about him, contemplating with affectionate in terest the smooth tamping-iron that had nearly done him to death—and with the whole in liis head nicely covered by a small silver plate, over Which the drawn scalp was promising to grow kindly. .And thus was death cheated of its prey hy a skilful, well-trained surgeon,’ and a gentle, affectionate andimtiring nurse. / But the times wfefe ’ hard with ' the Murch family; aiid all through tire long months which followed the accident, when, poor Obedwas laid tip in .ordinary 1 for, repairs, nothing hut a sturdy independence of character prevented them from crying out to their neighbors that they were miserably poor. But their neigh bor's—kind souls!—knew exactly the state of tilings in the Mnrbh cabin; and, with all the in genuity that such exigencies call into action, they helped the Murches on one pretext and another —the recipients accepting temporary aid, which was covered with . those harmless little fictions: that good-hearted 1 people can al ways invent for the purpose.; And so when Df. OtiS came to speak about his bill for ser vices and attendance, Priscilla felt a little tre mor in spite. of herself. This was a sacred debt; it was to the good doctor who had saved Obed’s life. But the doctor had his plan of settle ment. “Now, Mmch,” said he, “you Will have a louder call some of these days. We have all our time to die.: yours was not when that iron went up through your head; but it will come by and by. I’m getting gray, I know, hut I may outlive you. You may get blown up yet; and as you will have no special use for that curious head of yours, 1 why, I’ll call it square if you will agree to let me have it after you have got through with it.” This staggered Murch not a little; and his wife was disposed to resent such a proposition. But after contemplating it curiously for a day or two, both agreed; anil Dr. Otis gave - Obed a receipt for all services rendered, absolutely de clining to take any written agreement as to the novel means of payment—laughingly declaring that if Obed’s word, attested by Obed’s wife, was riot good for Obed’s skull, when he was done using it, a formal document would be no better. I The curious facts in Murch’s case got into the newspapers, and two medical journals re corded the"singular fact of a niaii’s brain being perforated by an iron rod without any fatal re sult. Consequently, when he went to the large town of Emilyville to live, he was the object of much remark and curiosity, and he thought this odd sort of notoriety rather helped him in his attempts to win a livelihood, fpr in some way or another tilings prospered with him and he got even with the world in spite of his drawbacks. In a few years after he went to Emilyville he had made himself a comfortable home, something like that which he had oiice known in old Maine, he thought, except this one was in the midst of a broad, flat valley, and the sharp and snowy mountains were dis . tant against a far-off horizon instead of hang ing broodingly about the town. Murch had made a good many friends in his home, and when Priscilla was taken down one summer with a fever, there were kind and sympatliizing hands extended to heto the child less couple in, tlieir trouble. One of the neighbors ran for a doctor who had lately moved into Emilyville, and had already made for liimself a considerable name. Obed had had no sickness in his home and knew nothing of the physician of the town; and he was not a little astonished when the new doctor proved to be no less than his old friend Otis—who had a mortgage on the skull of his old patient. Obed Murch it as not a weak man, but the idea that he had promised his head to a living mail, in advance of his own decease, had grown of late years to be very unpleasant to him, and so when Dr. Otis walked into liis humble home in Emilyville so unexpectedly, he was not a little taken aback and was almost sorry to meet him. The cheery doctor, however, shook liim heartily by the hand, and divining his thoughts, | said good-naturedly: “Never you mind, i Obed, you are not sent for yet; and your ; head is good for as many years on those shoulders as this one is on mine,” shak ing his own gray locks. Obed denied all fear upon that point, but acknowledged that he had .... uneasy thoughtssometimeswhenhc-recollected his strange bargain. ■ Afterwards, when the doctor came out of. Priscilla’s sick he said gravely to '. Obed: “My oldfriend, your time is not come yet, but Priscilla is called.” This was a sad blow to Obed, and he did not let go his hold on his beloved wife with much resignation. Priscilla was not a gentle woman, and some- I times her language had been rough with Obed; but she was his true, loving! and honorable wife, and her counsels had been his guide in life, tio, when she was passing away, and re minded him of what he had owed to Dr. Otis, lie listened awe-struck, as to a voice from out the grave. ’ “Remember,” said Priscilla,“if it hadn’t been for Otis you would have gone five years before me. He saved your life,and you mustn’t go back on yohr promise to him.; We made it together, and if I had outlived you I meant to see it kept. He lias' set liis heart on’t. Whoever comes after you must do your will in this --matteE”';Obcd'pr6m his word, and'perhaps'it W.'isrtothlsfaultthat - hemeverdidr—And-when-lie-lakPPriscilla-in the bleak cemetery of Emilyville, lie. made up Ms mind, to write his will so that his wistie . might be known to those who should come THE DAI But men dislike.making .their., In-law, '.Mrs. Dollkins- Hla old;, friend,|lfrv" ‘WBUp. ‘ ~ i i‘ f 'C QliSj^waSialready,esfirotisTiSt^inlp^go^.fir^: death unsettledjMurch onqemofe; <tice ih-th^ty^att^fwjheri/Dbbdijmet/filiA <& and*: Selling out his iiUlb',propfirty,-,‘feo Wbnt a jjthe ‘s^etVtt’- after few return, M Puget Sound, hefead WtalredgSirntßcantlyvairi ti*& ddinpr, and mlm ; wohtfier ■whom he had -sWMtjb|6 foS^ipb,' B? wft? ‘Mfeal . there was some vague f&tfs|;£hut;he jriightsfind., ! who,ffidfollowe<riDtis;'tlii3',.|ime;. Audi tfeemA -her again ‘where he" heripat, it. "H> % 'V'-'.y - any rate, he was' soott|worklng in . his’old, .One fine summer day Obed Murch was" haunts again, and, •strange’ 1 to say,- brought home on a stretcher, dumb with, he - took unto himself a second wife apoplexy, and gasping fpr breatfi. ~He was laid, —Phoebe ' Morey by name;- and 'there' ’ onacorich; butonlyto die; arid as he passed where he had begun life with-.herv wlwufead, he raUiedfor a moment, his dying eye gone, lie began again with a new partner!;'Very lighting upWDi<: Otis entered the room. He different was Phoebe from, her predecessor, gurglingly whispered: “Don't call ‘time’ on me Light, trifling, vain and superficial, she led.tho yet, Doc.; yqu may have my head to-morrow.’” steady-going Obcd,a life .much change^’from ' 'Arid this tinjb.Obed Murch had really “handed what he had krio’wri before.^Shewas.,tired of in his checks.” * . , , this isolated existence afnorig the saW-mllls of " “Poor ‘ dear,” said his wife, who had the Sound, and continually teasedher husband, heard his ' last words to the' doctor, “he as she had teased her lover, to take her hack to was out of his head at the #ery last.” The" California,'Qyhcre they might live happily in doctor smiled a grim' smile, and . saw trouble, seme large t<TWn. , ahead, for he knew that Obed had never told Bating liis solitary luncheon at noon .one day, this no-account young wife of his of, the! com-. Obed saw the open doorway of the saw-mill pact which he had made with his doctor. She' darken, and looking up, beheld Dr. Otis. A was a flighty, weak-minded woriian, without little chill passed oyer him as he greeted his Old- the least consideration for the requirements .'QC. time preserver, but he managed to put a plea- science, arid totally ignorant of anatomy. Be sant face on the matter, and found that the sides, tne.fqolish woman appeared to liaveloved doctor had been, like himself, a rolling stone, her husband.-, and had finally berit his steps to the new terri- AVhile preparations for the funeral were go tory as a more promising region for, a profes- ing on, Dr. Otis, as gentlyas possible, communi sional man. Obed was really bothered at the cated to the widow the particulars of'Obed’s sudden appearance of him who had a claim early accident, his marvelous OUre; arid ; the on his head, and when he went home to his promise which he had made to his preserver, supper that 'might his wife pouted arid fretted “And . so,” said the indignant woman, 1 because he was. silent, and glum, and would drying her tears for the moment, “you give-mo explanation therefor. His story had' : want to cut Obed’s poor dead head off, and gone: with him, and during the few years which make a ’natomy of him, do you?” had passed since he returned to Puget Sound, The doctor explained that something he had established somethingofan eccentric like this was his desire. But the widow fame as “The Man with a Hole in his Head.” was obstinate. In vain , did Otis plead Often had he good-naturedly allowed his pry- the sacred promise of the deceased; in vain did ing neighbors to feel the silver plateiihder Ws he recall the consent of Priscilla; iii Vain did scalp, arid had showed them the scar hidden Mrs. Dollkins aver reluctantly tliat she had among the buihy whiskers that : covered the; ; heard her poor dead-and-gone Priscilla say that; place where the tamping-iron had passed up Dr. Otis had the promise of Obed’s skull, if he through his head from. under his' But , lived long enough to get it rightly. Mrs. Hnrch not even his wife knew of the bargain which was not to be moved, and swore that no man, lie had made witli Dr. Otis. Still, he meant to- living or. dead, should hack her husband’s keep it all tlie same. : . ; bodjrTvhilo she wasmbont.- so toTjone Obed could not very well avoid meeting Mountain did Obed go, taking liis head with Dr. Otis in the little' village where him into liis sandy grave, where he wuslaid they both lived now. Perhaps he did peacefully to rest. 11 riot care to avoid liim; still, he would > Tlie disposition of Obed’s skull proved to be Lave preferred not being reminded of- such an asdre subject s witli, both the women/ .'.They unpleasant thing as liis rinte-mortem disposition liad never agreed well together; but, while of liis own head; and he never saw the good Obed lived, lie had managed to keep peace iii doctor without thinking of the, chances which the lwuse. Now, however, Mrs. Dollidns, Who there might be of the cool scientific man some thought Dr. Otis a hardly-usetl roan', day turning over liis empty skull, as Hamlet abide” Mrs. Phcebe;, arid - Mrs. Phcobe, wlib might have -handled poor Yorick’s. And he was hoirified at the; ghoul-like' proposition of wondered,in his.own mind-if the doctor would the doctor, determined that she would find anything curious about biswounded brain, and so desire to keep tJ)at, hi spirits.^, And he made a ghastly joke to hlriiself, Whe thbught of the intoxicating liquor going to his brain. Only once did he mention the unpleasant topic to the doctor; and then it was that he sug gested .that he was able to pay tbakold bill now, if the doctor would make it but for him. • ' “But,” said Otis, good-humoredly, “you have a Receipted bill; what more do you want?” “ True,” said Obed; “ but you may never get the consideration gjven for that receipt; and 1 had rather pay it now in coin arid have done with it.” The doctor laughed, and said: “Never you mind; my consideration was your promise, and I’ll rim the risk of your keeping . it. “What 1 man,” he added, .more gravely, “have you; re pented of ? your bargain?”. : : “No,” said Murch, “not repented; but you may neverget your pay, and I would like to have it oil my mind.” “Leave me alone for that,” was the shrewd reply; “if I slip off the hooks before you do, I shall lose; and that 1 is my risk, not yours.” And though the doctor was a frequent guest at Murch’s house, sitting at his table and chat ting gaily with his wife, Obed never spoke of the affair to him again; but often, (when the unconscious Otis was passing in and about his home, he would look almost savagely at him, muttering to himself: “He’s waiting for my head. Don’t he wish he iriay get it.” Some such feeling as this, added to his wife’s daily importunities, may have induced Murch to quit the Sound country and go to Califor nia. At any rate, for the next few years he moved about restlessly from place to place, never staying very long anywhere. His friends and acquaintances saiu it wris a pity that his wife was of such a fickle disposition. She was contented nowhere, but was continually drag ging Obed about from place to place. Now, they were in the mines; then, in the lumber country; next,“they Were ranching in the San Joaquin Valley; and anon, they were keeping a tavern on the Scott Mountain stage road. No body knew that Obed was never well-pleased lorig in; one place; and his wife, quite likely, was injuriously reported of by those who did not notice that Dr. Otis, somehow, kept track of .ill their movements. It was a little singular, to be sure; but Otis rieyer dwelt long in one place; and lie was so attached to the man whose life he had saved, that he liked to live where he lived. And so it came to pass that Obed fairly hated the sight of the good doctor; and when he had moved to a new place, he waited uneasily until he had found that Otis was once more near him.- He knew lie would come; and though he swore a suppressed oath to himself when lie saw his old and fast friend at last in his new home, he was restless and fidgety until the doctor came. Then he was morose, but tran quil. The doctor was too kindly to make himself obtrusive upon Murch: so he often contented himself by dwelling in an adjoining town, where Obed did not see him except at Tong in tervals. Still, Obed knew he was there; and when he met him on his errands of liealiug among tlie scattered settlers of the mountain passes, he greeted him warmly enough, but looked after liim with agrim smile, and grum bled in his set teeth : “There goes the man that’s waiting for my head. Let him wait.” While he was living at San Marcel, there was eveiy indication that the time for Obed Murch to die had come at last. He was very sick;' and what was most ’ unfortunatej there was no physician in the place. There-miglit be one at Red Dog; but Red Dog; /was over “the divide,” ten miles away, and with a rough road be tween. The emergency was pressing, and a kind neighbor was found to mount and ride to Red Dog, and see if anybody had moved into the place to succeed to sie practice of Dr. Mc- Tavish, who had drank himself into a prema ture-grave and a disused- mining-shaft-one night, and had left no , legitimate successor. Murch. was very sick, with fiorribje spasms of , cdlic, when back came his imesseriger, with Df. Otis, who had moved into Red Dog only a week before. Obed was not surprised in the least, and motioning his wife from the room, he raised himself up 'in bed, and said: “See here, Doc., no foolishness, now; if you don’t do your level best to .bring me out of this, you bet I’ll find some way to circumvent you yet.” ■ v.-; ; “But, my deal- fellow,” said the doctor, with an injured air, “do you suppose I wouldn’t do my best to bring you Out of tins? Your time has not come yet, and if anybody can save you 1 can, and I will.” And lie did, Obed Murch lived to repent himof his hasty judgment, and to thank his old friend for his faithful services. When the Idaho mining excitement broke out, Murch left his wife With the mother of his fijst wife, I?i’iscilla ) .then living in San Eran cisco/aniTwerrtto'the'diggingsr-HeiostrsigUt -of-Dr.-Otis for-a“While;-but f with—a-singular fatality,—lie—soori---d rifted—back-to—Galifor-' nia, the Idaho venture not turning out as he expected; and lie took up Ms abode in San Francisco, sharing Ms home with his mother ING BULLETIN—PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1869. not live in the same house with a woman who upheld him in his' mon strous; demands. So they dissolved partner ship; and the unconscious cause of all this trouble slept tranquilly in his grave, with his head safely on liis shoulders. And the; doctor waited. "... ... Yearswent, slowly by, and Obed's form was taquldering in the grave, when a new feud flashed up between the two women. Dr. Otis married Mrs. Dollkins. It caused great scan dal, especially to Mrs. Phoebe Murch. “To think,” she said, “of that old thing marrying a mail young enough to be her grandson!” But there was not so much difference in the ages of the couple as all that; and Dr. Otis appeared . Satisfied with his choice, although she brought him small dowry beyond a little furniture and: a- small bit Of iron which had once been blown perpendicularly through a man’s head at Mooney -Flat. ; It was Obed Murch’s tamping iron. Mrs. Otis was the mother-in-law of the deceased Obed Murch; she was the mother of his wife, Who had bee* a party to the compact which gave Dr. Otis the right to a cer tain skull for which Murch had no further use. She was, moreover, the guardian of her de ceased daughter’s good name, and in some sense, the custodian of the husband’s remains. Accordingly she executed a paper giving to the bearer, Dr. Peletiah Otis, the right and per mission to exhume the body of her son-in-law, Obed Murcli, and remove therefrom the skull of said deceased. It appeared as though Mrs. Phcebe had been circumvented. . Armed with this document, Dr. Otis ap plied to the proper authorities for permission to carry out his plan; and/at night, to avoid prying curiosity, he proceeded to the cemetery, attended by a trusty assistant. The pitying starlight looked down upon the opened lid ofObed’s last resting-place,"and beheld the sudden wrench and twist which gave to. Science and Dr. . Otis that rare specimen of anatomy—the skull of a man with a hole in liis head. The wrath of Mrs. Phoebe when she found what had been done was dreadful to behold. It was greatly noised about that the doctor had promised an eminent professor of anatomy in an Eastern college that he should have the skull for the college lectures and the college museum. It was said the abducted cranium was in an express office, boxed up and ready for shipment. There were writs of replevin and other curious legal documents out; and an angry widow went ramping about among the lawyers and detectives, mgingthem to bring to justice the guilty doctor, and bring back to her the beloved head of her own Obed, now some three years dead. Meantime, in a stout box, under an enormous pile of freight, Obed Murch’s fleshless skull was travelling to New York, ghastfully.grinning to itself all the way. The yellow October moon . shone weirdly in through the high gothic-arched windows of the library of Corinthian College. The tall book cases, covered with dust and heavy with black carvings, looked like antique monuments hold ing deaiTforms; and one would almost have expected that from these dark recesses, dim with- the dust iof ages, would step out the ghostly figures of the ancient writers whose names have long ceased to be syllabled by living men, and are kept here embalmed in the mbuldyr splendor of the grand old college li brary. Starting out of the-darkness of the alcoves, a few pale marble shapes of Roman orators, Greek poets, and lusty Briton lungs, gleamed duskily as if half alive. And up and down the clustered columns the fitful shadows of the elms by the windows chased each other like goblin ghosts. * It was midnight; and if ever spectral shapes appear to men, this Was the time and the plaqe. So thought the half-scared old watchman as he rose, uneasily from his comfortable chair, Where he had taken an illicit nap; and looking warily down the long vista, he beheld the moon shining -through-the dooTOf-thc musenm-of anatomy,— which, should be closed. Hobbling along to tlie arched doorway, through which the moon hglit streamed in a broad flood, he saw beyond A strange,.dark; figure gliding stealthily along, feeling its way by the glazed cabinets whose heavy; cases lined the walls. The Shape stopped by one of the cabinets; and then he Saw it was tlie, headless figure of a man. Softly roiling back tlie sasli-door, the Shape put out ; its -hand and drew forth a gleaming white skull impaled upon An iron rod, such as is used by those; who blast rocks. It slipped the gibber ing, bony. skull up and down On the rod that pierced it from chin to crown, as if it were amused at the curious sight; then tlie awe- , struck watchman heard from the fleshless lips of the skull: “Yes, you bet that’s me!” Un less the watchman, dreamed a horrid dream, lie had seen the Spectre of the Man with a Hole in His Head. MORTGAGES. a ’ HE nnd assortment of - BOOTH, SHOES AMP FOH MEN AND I Can be bad at ’ . - BHNBflf fIOPP’B, —, No. 230 NOBTH NINTH STREET 1 Better than anywhere in the City. - A Pit Bor utile by PETER WRIGHT & SONS, 115 Walnut st. ep»<tos GIVE HIM AOALL. *ic,bo6, ~slo7m, «8.000 first- Vf.dust) for ealo. Also, BiivcriU'of tiicli, at a L-ocil mucount. ~ .ic3o-6t6 ; . E7It.3QNEB.7OT Walnut Btreot. CITY ORDIN. MMON COM phia. JP icwst,: IHP'ABKfK iCE.Jp if ' \ lolutijm ado|jt#d: JpforiM a-Jopniorthe .Kents ah<| Mortgages, , irjjnbllcJtutomaftonvi-.ril JCOMT ECKSTEIN, 1 Clerk of Common Council. I accordant aiter the Comma} ffifielpWa.onTlnil r gf June, 1609, tl ‘•An Ordiimuri payment of Gfi AK ORDINANCE TO AUTHORIZE A XX loan for the payment of ground rente andmortgages. Section 1. , The Select and Common -CowhCilH.cf.ithe'.Citjt.of.Uhiladelphia do or , dain, That the Mayor of Philadelphia be and • he ie hereby authorisicd to borrow, at not less ; than par,on/the r ereditpf the city, from time i to time, seven;, hundred thousand dollars for i the payment of ground rents and mortgages i held against the. city, for which interest not to exceed the rate of six per cent, per annum shall he paid, half yearly, on- the iirst days of January and July, at the office of the City i Treasurer. The principal of said loan shall he, ’ payable and paid at the expiration of thirty ! years from tho.date of the same and not be ;• fore, without the consent of the holders there of; and the certificates; therefor in the usual • form of the certificates ofeity loan shall- ho is sued in such amounts'ns the lenders may re -1 quire,.hut not for any fractional part ot one, hundred dollars,; • or,- if' required, in 1 amounts' of five hundred or one thousand dollars; and it shall he expressed in said certificates that. ■ the loan therein mentioned and the interest ; thereof are fiayahle free from all taxes. Sec. 2. whenever any loan shall he made by ; virtue thereof there shall be, by force of (this ordinance, annually,appropriated out ;of the income of the corporate estates, and from the :«um raised by taxation, a sum, sufficient to pay the interest on said certificates, and the further sum of three-tenths of one per centum on the par value of such certificates so issued shall be impropriated, quarterly out of said in come and taxes to a sinking fund, which fund and • its accumulations are hereby especially pledged for tin; redemption and payment of: said certificates. •• r RESOLUTION TO PUBLISH A LOAN BILL. Hesolped, That the Clerk of Common Coun-, oil be authorized to' publish in two daily news papers of this city, daily, for four weeks; the ordinance presented to the Common Council on Thursday, June 24,1869, entitled, “An Or dinance to Authorize aXoan for the payment of Ground -Rents and Mortgages.” And tin; said Clerk, at the stated meeting of Councils after the expiration of four weeks from the first day of said publication, shall present to this Council one of each of said newspapers for. every day wi- winch the same shall have been made. ' .. . ie2o24ts JEXCirjtSIONS, FOR LONG BRANCH Without Change of Cars. LEAVE PHILADELPHIA, FBOM WALNUT - STREET WHARF, 8.00 A. 81.,2.00 P. 31. DOE LONG BRANCH at 12.19 P. M., 6.12 P. SI. FARE Philadelphia to Long Branch... Excursion Tickets WM. 11. GATZMEE, Agent. FOR CAPE MAY, On Tuesdays, Thursdays and Suturdcrys. : Oil and after SATURDAY; June 2titb; the iterr and splendid Steamer LADY OF THE LAKE, Captain W. Thompson,- will commence running regularly to Cape Kay, leaving Arch'Stieet Wharf on TUESDAY, THURSDAY and; SATURDAY MORNINGS at 9 oxlock, and returning, leave the landing at Cape May on MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS at 8 O’clock. FAKE, INCLUDING CARBIAGE HIRE, §2 25, CHILDREN, “ " “125. SERVANTS, “ “ “ 1 50. SEASON TICKETS, 810. CARRIAGE HIRE EXTRA. ; . - : THE LADY OF THE LAKE is a fine sea boat, has handsome state-room accommodations, and is fitted up with everything necessary for the safety and comfort of received until BJI o’clock. ; For fnrtherparticulars, inquire at the Office, No. SS North DELAWARE Avenue. ■ ' G.II. HUDDELL, CALVIN TAGGART. CAMDEN AND AMBOY AND PHILA DELPHIA AND TRENTON RAILROADS. FOURTH OF JULY EXCURSION 'FOR' NEW YORK. Excursion Tickets will bo sold from Philadelphia for all trains of 3d, 4th and sth of July. Good to return from New York July sth. 6th and 7th, by any of the trains except New York and Washington Through Lines. . 84 FOR THEROUND TRIP. WVH. GATZMER, Agent. jy2-2t§ TJIOUBTH OF.IUIjY KXCTJKSIONS, J}_ ; VIA NORTH PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD 1 Excursion Tickets, nt'-redneed rates, to the principal Joints on this road and its connections, will be issued on ulysd,4thand sth, good to returnon July Gth,inclu- PABSENGER DEPOT. CORNER BERKS AND AMERICAN STREETS. City Ticket Oitice, 105 South Fifth street. „ ELLIS CLARK, jyl3t§ _ General Agent. ' SUNDAY EXCURSION. Thn splendid will lciiveCUestnut street wharf at Bh* o’clock A. M. and 2J£ stopping at Mcgarge’s wharf. Tacony, Riverton, Andalusia, Beverly, Burlington and Bristol. Returning leaves Bristol at 11 o’clock A. M. and & P. H., stopping at all the above landings. 1 Fare 25 cents. Excursion 40 cents REMOVALS. REMOVAL. MESSRS. KEELER & FENNEMORE, PHOTOGBAPHEBS, , No. 5 S. Eighth Street, ~ . ; Respectfully announce that, on July Ist, 1869 they will open their now and splendid PHOTOGRAPH GALLERIES, No. 920 Arch (Street, Philadelphia, where, with greatly increased facilities for transacting their business, under the linn of HECIiEB, SIIDDAKDS A FEANEMOKE, they will bo pleased to welcome all who may favor them with a call. __ _ je!2awtf Removal. the long-kstab lished depot for the purchase and sale of second* handDooro, Windows, Store Fixtures,-to.,from Seventh street fo Sixth street, above Oxford, where such articles are for sale in greatvariety. Also, new Boors, Sashes, Shutters. to. ■apl3-3m NATHAN W. ELLIS COPARTNERSHIPS. PARTNERSHIP.—THE UNDERSIGNED JL have this day .fonned a partnership Under the firm of-WELLS & BUCK, for the purpose of transacting the Dry Goods Commission business, at 134 Chestnut street. CHARLES A. WELLS, BYRON IJ. BUCK. Philadelphia, July 1,1860. This day we turn over to Messrs. Wells & Buck. Com mission Merchants, the ugcncy for the sale in Philadel phia of goods manufactured by Samuel Kiddle & Co., and ltiddle A Steen, which heretofore Ims been carried on by ourselves. Open accounts settled by Wells & Buck. ■ . KIDDLE <fc STEEN.- Philadelphia, July 1, 1869. jyl3t^ TAMES T. WOLl!' IS THIS DAY AD- O mitted (o an interest in our concarn. The business will bo conducted in future nndoi' tin l style of TVN DALE ■ MITCHELL & WOLF. ... 1 707 Chestnut street. Philadelphia, July 18t.1809. , , Jylthstn3tS DRUGS. TV RUG GISTS’ SUNDRIES. GRADU AL stes.Mortar.Fill Tiles, Combs, Brushers, Mirrors, , Tweezers, Puff Boxes,Horn Sooojps.,.Surgical lußtrii-. nientß, Trusses, Hard and Soft: Bnbber, Goods, Vial Cases, Glues and Metal Syriugcs.x&o.i all at “ First Handsy prices. SNOWDEN & BBOTHKB, apd~tf 1 , 1 23 Smith Eighth street. ' TYRUGGISTS ARE INVITED TO EX- onr large stock of fresh. Drugs and Chemicals of the latest Importation. „ Also,, essential OUbV Vanilla Beans, Sponges, Chamois Skins, etc: BOBEBT SHOEMAKER £ CO., N. E. cor nerjourth and Bace streets, /T\LIVE OIL, SUPERIOR ON >n hottlSs: various brands. BOBEBT BHOEMAKEB &.CO,; N. li. corner Fourth and-Bace streets. • . CASTILE SOAP—NOW LANDING.—SOO boxes White and Mottled Castile Soap,very superior quality BOBEBT SHOEMAKEB & C 0.,, Wholesale Druggists, N. B. corner Fonrtli nnd Baca streets; BOOTS AND SHOES. * SUMMER RESORTS ] w ;i O^tnxuHßov Beading Railroad * 4ND,)BRANCHEB. Mansion House, lit. Carbon. ■ Unit Caroline Wonder, Pottsvlllo P. O.', Schuylkill Co. .- Tascnrora Hotel. Mrs. M. L. Miller,-JTtncarora ?. o,i BchuylW)lVmiyi , ■ - Mansion House, -.-v..-., ( W. F. Emith, Mnhnnoy City P. 0., Schuylkill county. Mount Carrnel House. Charles Calp.HonntCurmolP.O., Northumberland c»V ;> 'Wlrite House, E. A. Moss, Heading • ' AnOnlnsia, HcoryWcftver, ReadingP.O.' ■ i . fn r ; >. Using Springs Hotel, Dr. A. Smith, WornersvAlo P. 0., Dorks connty. qold Springs Hotel, JLebanon Counlr.' W;m.bor&, Piue Grove P. 0,, Schuylkill county, *** „ ... , BoyertowriSeminary, - t F. 8. Stauffer, Boyertown I\o., Berko county, er; : ; -‘''.v■; Geo. F. Groldcr, Litiz P. 0., Lancaster county. . _ u 1 , KnhWtta Springs, John Frederick, hplirftal’. 0., Lancaster county, _ ' ■ Perkiomen Bridge Hotel, paTia Longoker, FreelanilP. O.* Montgomery county 'Prospect Terrace, ' Dr. James Palmer, Freeland P. 0., Montgomery connty t „ Spring MU! HeiSthim 7 Jacob H. Brolsch, Conshohocken r.O..Montgomery co. T m°«-tei°S HoWCn>Bhamo^lu » Northumberland connty. COLUMBIA HOUSE, CAPE MAY, With accommodations for 710 guests, Is novoien. TheGernwqla Serenade Band, under the direction of Prof. Geo. Bastcrt, has been secured for the season. GEO. J. BOLTON, Proprietor. UNITED STATES HOTEL, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. f Will open'for tho reception of Gnesta .r--; Time 26tli, 1R69. Haselor’s Band, under the direction of Mr. Slmo- Haseler, is engaged for the season. Persons wishing to engage Booms will apply to , GEO. FBEEMANyßaporintcjidont, Atlantic City, S. J., Or BBOWN A WOELPPKB, SB Blchinond Street, Philadelphia. SURF HOUSE, ATLANTIC CITIf, N. J., JJOJV OPEN FOB GUESTS. For Room*, Terms, Ac., address THOMAS FARLEY, Proprietor. Carl Stnlz's Tartar Ordi&tra kiu bten engaf id/or the season. CAPE ISLAND, N. J. A Jint-cluii BESTAUBANT, a la cart., will 1„- opened by ADOLPH PBOSKAUEB.of S 2 8. Till III) -rif.', 1 . MS'fo/Aj of June,ondarthe name SmotoSo 0 * A E *I>® corner of WASH- - INgTON unit JACKhOA Me., known oa llnrt’a Cottage. i amilies will beanpplicd.attha Cottage. Lodging Booms by Day or Week to Bent, CON GEESB HALL , Cape may. Now Open, for Rooms. J. F. FAKE. Proprietor. jtH'Mtl 121* Address, Hasster’a Full Band. GILMOUB COTTAGE, CAPE MAY City, fronting Congress Hall lawn; convenient to naming; commands one of the finest view aof the ocean: is now open for guests. Address GILMOUB COTTAGE, Cope May Oily, K.J. . . if. £oBETTO SPBINGS, ' CAMBRIA COUNTY, PA., Will to opened to Guests Jnly lot. ‘Excursion Tickets,” good for the season, over the P?on»ylvania' Central Eallrosd. c-.in bd procured from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh; and • Harrisburg, to Barter station, 1 miles from tbefcprings, where coaches will be in readiness to convey guests to the Spring*. The oroprietor takes pleasure in notifying the public that the. hotel’ is in proper order, and all amusements usually found of watering paces can be found at the ahove.resort. Terms,. 62 60 per day, or 9to per month, i jestljygc* ;• YKAKCIS A. GIBBONS, Proprietor. SPRINGS THIS FAVORITE V/t BEBORT. situated on the summit of the ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS, 2,200 FEET ABOVE THE LEVEL OF THE SKA. will be fer the re ceptlon of guests on the litb day of June, The build lugs connected with this establishment have been entirely •reuorated and newljrfnmlshod. Excursion tickets Bold bv the P. B. It , at hew York. Philadelphia, Lancaster. Harrisburg,• and Pittsburgh, good for the eeason. All trains stop at Cresson. TWO FURNISHED COTTAGES , FOB BENT. ' t or farther information address jj-2-lmf Prospect terrace. j „ FICEELAND. MONTGOMERY COONTY, This delightful Hummer Residence will ha open for the reception of guests on oml after Slay 1. The lawn and grounds have been arranged with sum' mer arbors, croquet grounds, billiard rooms, Ac;, anil for shade and beauty are very delightful; boating, fish ing, plunge-baths. Ac. Address, JAMES PALMER, apis th s tu 3mol , Freeland, I’a. L'IGHT HOUSE COTTAGE, “ ' ATLANTIC CITY, N. J„ Conveniently located to good and safe bathing. Is now opeu. Leave cars at V. S. Hotel. . . . ■ JONAH WOOTTON, lm§ Proprietor. , (JEA' BATHING —NATIONAL HALL, O Cape May City, N, J. This largo Uud commodious, hotel, known as the National Hall, is now receiving visitors. \ e AARON GARRETSON, \ je24-2m§_ ■ _ _ __ Proprietor. Delaware ho itseT cape island, N. J, is now open for the reception of visitors. jel7-2m§ JAMES MKCKAY,Proprietor. my29-fl,tf The broad top mountain house will 1)0 opened for tlie reception of guests JuneSOth. For terme, Ac., address. „ W. T. PEARSON, Proprietor, Broad Top, Huntingdon county. Pa. FURNITURE. I am selling at present, at tlie exact cost of production, the finest lot of Furniture, in quality, style and finish, ever offered in thin city. My intention is to meet the views of purchasers, and make it an object for them to bxiy. Any doubts as to the above facts will easily be dispelled by calling at my Warei’ooms, 1316 CHESTNUT STREET. JOHN M. GARDNER. jol6lm :• '= ■ ' B' I SHOP THORPE—THISCHUROH » School for girls, on tho south bank of the Lehigh, Mill begin its second- year. I>. V., on the lfith of Snptem* ~lJFi~TJiirntmiber orpuplTSiH limited to thirty. French" istnught by a resident governess, and so far as possible made the language of tbe family, Address for circulars, &'o M MISS CHASE, . , Bielioptborpe, _ Bethlehem, Fa riiHE uSivkusixy, ; SOUTH BETHLEHEM, PENNSYLVANIA. t Applicants for ndriiispibn on SEPTEMBER I, ilfW*.. . will bo examined on MONDAY, June 21, or on FBIDAYy August 27. Apply to. hknSy OOPPEE.XI-.D., Proaidont. jel7lm§ HORSEMANSHIP SCIENTIFi- taught at the Philadelphia Ridirtg School* Fourth" Btreet, above Vino. Thehorßes nro quiet ana thoroughly trained. .For hire, noddle horses*’ Also car* riuges at all times for weddings, parties ,:opora, funerals,- & °- ' *"?»,**« t 0 th6 T UOMAB ORAIQB & .SON QIG. P- BOND IN ELLA, TEACHEffi OF jo Singing* Private lessons aud clqbbos. Boaidence r 308 8. Thirteenth street. ■; an2s-tf§ . TT OJOGE R S’ -AI> t P WOSTENHOLM’G . TV POCKET KNiy£f,,l'CAia, and BTAGHAN- ~ BLEB of-keautiful fmlalit BODGEHH'-and WADE & y. BUTOHEB’B.and tho,CELEBRATED LECOULTRB , RAZOR. SeiBHOBBTN -CABEB oftlio-flnost auallty—- Razors, Knives, Scissors and Tnlilo Cutlery, ground and polished. K Alt INSTRUMENTS of thonl OH t upnroYCil construotlon to assist tho hoaring, at P. MADEIRA’S,. Cutler and Surgical Instrument Maker, 115 Tenth street,, below Chestnut. myl-tf LPsom GEO. W. MULLIN, Proprietor, 4 Creation Spring, Cambria comity, J’u EDUCATION. CUTLER*". jyltaul Jt 18 rumored tljnt the Ecumenical Council at Home will be postponed dmi year: ■ The national debt lias been decreased $40,- 000,000 since Grant’s inauguration-' Secuetakv Cox announces-that he has never,had any intention,"of resigning, his, ■positidn; l it:.! si : t 0< .• I Thk convict Drake, who was shot in tlie re vOlt at’Sing Sing, N.Y., on Wednesday, died ? yesterday. ’ Dukino an Orange riot at Portadown, Ire land, yesterday, the police charged the mob, killed one man and wounded another: A meeting of Peers was held on Thursday, to frame,amendments to the Irish Church I hill. ’ . . ~ ~. : ' - Tine built in the French - cable’ lias been re-' paired,and the work of laying has been re sumed. DeHopas,“yesterday, had a meeting with Havana editors, .upbraided: them- for their treatment of Dnlce, and advocated restora tion of peace \yithout the, shedding of bloody ' John D. 8. Distiller Court, at- Boston, of passing counterfeit fractional currency, and sentenced to cue year’s imprisonment.. , , , A siiAiip, shock of earthquake' was felt at St. Douis/hetvi'ee'h ;: ohe and. two o’clock'on’' Thursday morning. : dauiage is reported. The shock was felt for a circuit of 30 miles, and at Cairo, 111., severely. Dviunc a Conservative colored barbecue* at Vauxban island. near Hichmorid. ya., yes terday, the, bridge leading to, the island.broko down, carryingbO persons witb it. Colonel J. It. Branch, a Conservative Senatorial candi date, apd two other men, were instantly lulled, and Seven colored men wore fatally injured. The French corvette Curiux, from Mar tinique,-is in quarantine at Fortress Monroe, with eighteen cases of vomito on, board. They buried two men at sea on Thursday t and three yesterday. The captain, first ofltcerJand sm> aeon are dead, and the assistant surgeon is dying. Until medical, aid canbe procured she will be attended by -Dr. Cooper, quarantine oflicer. She will take in coal and provisions as soon as possible, and proceed Korin. THE COURTS. Xbe «rand Jury vs- the Newspapers. Quakteu Sessions— Judge Budlow.—The G rand Jury came Into Court, when the fore man submitted the lollowing interrogatories to the Court: , “ Can the Grand Jury take official action aaaiuat the proprietors of public journals for the publication of articles, w hich, in ’ their judgment* reflect unwarrantably upon them selves or upon the Court? ..... “ How tar, if at all, can the Grand Jury take official action in cases where violations of law are by common rumor said to have been com- | mittedbv individuals or by corporations,when no cdmtdaiht has been made under oatU by any prosecutor before a magistrate, according to the usual practice in criminal cases ? , v,r. Judge Ludlow said be would proceed to an swer the questions. ‘ To the first question I answer: At the com mon law contempts should bo similarly pun ished in any casein which the oflenco had. been committed, in or ont of the presence of the Court. Tile legislature, however, in 183 b, passed a law which circumscribes the power of the Court And very wisely, inmy judgment, limits it to the ’ cases specified in the act. See Purdon’s Digest,/!. 188. ... First—The power of the several courts of this Commonwealth to issue attachments, and to inflict summary punishments for contempt of court, shall be restricted to the following cases, V& the official misconductof theofficersof such courts respectively. •j. To disobedience or neglect by officers, parties* jurors or witnesses or or to the lawful process of the court-. : _ . 3. To the misbehavior of any person in the preseuco of the court, thereby obstructing the administration of justice. . ' A&xmd-'-The punishment of imprisonment tor contempt as aforesaid shall extend only to such contempts as shall be committed m open court, and all other contempts shall be punished by line only. . „ „ * . , The liberty of the press is fully protected, and this is of the utmost consequence in a free government, for history teaches us thatthe arbitrary conduct of Judges, protected from iust criticism by arbitrary laws, and acting under the control and sanction of the execu tive power, or at the command of the heredi tary head of the Government, has inflicted se rious damage to the cause of liberty. Are we, then, powerless? Bv no means, . for the same act of Assembly which limits the power of the court prescribes a method hy which any Injun' ran be redressed, for sec tious 26 and 2T of the act of 16th June, 1836, declare: - Fourth— publication, ont of court, re apectiiig the conduct of the judges, officers of the court, jurors, witnesses, parties many ot tlieUi, of, in, or concerning any cause depend ing In such court, shall be construed into a exempt of said court, so as to render the au thor, pniiter, publisher, or cither of them, liable to attachment or siunmary punishment for the same. ... .. •u „ • Fifth— lf any such publication shall im properly tend to bias the winds of the public, or of the court, the officers, the jurors, wit hi'ssch in any of them* on a Question: depend teg before tfie court, ft shall fie lawful for any person who shall feel himself aggrieved there by to proceed against the author, printer and publisher .thereof, or either of them, by indict ment,or be may bring an action at law against them, or either of them, and. recover .such damages as a jury may think fit to award. Observe, gentlemen, how carefully the lib erty of the citizen and of the press is pro tected, and see in tins law how arbitrary would be the act of the Grand Jury and the Court which summoned, without a preliminary oath and a regular judicial hearing, any citizen or citizens, and especially the editors ot the press, to the bar of this court and tljus branded them as criminals. ' . . ; -V -- I would rather suffer uiqust and even im prudent criticism than violate agreatprincipie, for X know that sooner or later an act of in justice-will be rectified by\aii enlightened pub lic opinion,-vi-blle a violation of a principle not only iuflicts a mortal wound .upon the cause of the liberty of the press and ot the cit izen, hut that wound would be inflicted by the arm sworn to protect and defend both. To the secoud question 1 answer: As to - your powers, they, are by no means as exten sive aS is sometimes supposed. Judge King has distinctly defined tlie-powers possessed by the Grand Jury, the District At torney and the courts, and in order to be ex actly accurate I will read the law as laid down bv that able Judge, and which has received the sanction of Ills successors upon this bench. It is as follows: . . ~ , V .. Three ‘ exceptions were laid / down to the general rules thus described, as follows: _ “The first of these is where criminal of their owii motion, call the attention of grand juries , to, .and direct the investigation of, matters of general public import, which, from their nature and, operation in the' entire coni munity, justify StocK intervention. The action of the courts on such occasions rathfcr bears on things than persons, the obi cot, being the sup* pression-ofigeneral and publi&.oyils, affecting, in their • influence and operation, com munities “rather; than individuals, and, there fore, more properly the Subject of general ■■ tlian siiecial Complaint—such as great riots, that shake the social fabric, carrying terror and dismay among the citizens; general pub lic nuisances, affecting the general health and comfort; multiplied and flagrant vices, tending to debauch and corrupt the public morals, and the like. In such cascs the courts may pro perlyitn aid of inquiries directed by them,, summoti,-swear, and send before, the Grand Jury such witnesses as they f may deem necessary to a full; investigation ot tlio evils, intimated, in order to enable the Grand Jury to present the offence and the offenders. But this course is never adopted inoasesofordinaryerimeschargedagaiiistm- VidualSi hecausO it would involve; to'a certain extent, the cxpres4pii„of .oxn.fii.on by antieipa; u - ••-■-ition.Qt-'facta 4ihsecUiently-to-jeoui<i-'-hbfura-tli«i CQurtsfOr'dh'eet juaginent, and because such cases ptesont hone of'tlibse urgent necessities. y4Uinrautlioi‘l2o"ivdep;lttiii‘efrointhe ! orilinaryi course; of justice, In directing; any of these investigations' thq Court; act under '-theirofli eial reijionsibihties, and apsweiiVfofliny step takehYuot justified by the projiof exercise •of a sound judicial discretiou. sn^fe°wherothe^AttorSj^episrafa!^og!2'o._ proftfolMf .without a previous binding over or commit* ; ment of tne accused. Thafc'this can be law* | fullv done is undoubted!*; j pcea* i .sions. whore such an. exercise of officiauiu, Sto.te.aud anindictm-entfoundtodyh® rcatored I Erenow to demanding hlini^to.dfl c UsM?ojwß'; tote,or When aleSs ptoippt of,proceed*!; ; ing might Jeadtowbe, escape of Aipuhlie,. Oft fender. In these; however, and.' cases where this extraordinary, .authority-W; ! exercised I)%' an Attorney-General>th& vCiti2fon. - affected by it i& not guarantees;, Besides the intelligence, integrity and indw. pendence.which always raußtbe twesumeagto aceompany lilgh public trust, the acctuifed.'tto-, justly grievedby sueb a-procedure, has the | official responsibility of tlib officers to, iook to. . If an Attorney-GpnerahßhpuldrmT ploy oppressively thishigh power,given tohiiri only to be used when positive emergencies or the special nature of the case ;re4<*l*cs !lto ; -oxj. ercise, lie may be impeached and removcq from office for such an abuse. The Court, too; whose process and power is so misapplied; should certainly vindicate; itselfiby protecbn^ (the citizen;' In practice, howdyer, the law officers oi the Commonwealth always exercise,; tills power cautiously—generally under the directions of the Court—and never unless convinced that tlie general public good de mands it. The third and last of the extraordinary modes of criminal procedure known to our .penal code is that which is originated by the presentment of a grand jury. A presentment, properly speaking, is / the notice token by a grand jury of any offence, from their own Tiiowledite or observation, without any bill of in dictment being laid before them at the smtof the Commonwealth. * Bike an indictment, however, it must he the act of the whole jury, not less than twelve' concurring in it. It Is, in fact, as much a criminal accusa tion as an. indictment, . except that it emanates from their own knowledge; arid not from ’the public accuser; and except that it wants technical- form, it is, regarded as instructive for an indictment. That a grand jury may adopt -such a course of procedure without a previous ‘ preliminary hearing of-the accused, is.nofc.to be,questioiied by this Court: 5 Arid it is equally true tbatin making such a presentment the Grand Jury Are entirely irresponsible, either to the public Or! to individuals aggrieved, the law giving them the most absolute and unqualified indem nity for such an official act. _ Your power, yon will observe, is limited to the case in which you act “from your own knowledge or observation,” or upon matters given you in charge ; by the, court, arid;, the court have rio’ power except in s cases’ “of great riots that shake the social fabric, carrying ter ror and dismay among citizens, general pub lic nuisances aftecting public health, multiplied and flagrant vices,” and I add upon my own responsibility, in cases where, by the action Of the government, the personal liberty of all citizensis endangered, and the like. - - . The Court never acts against individuals charged with specific crimes. If such crimes have in any case been committed, every magistrate may issue a warrant, and the Court is open to hear criminal- charges in.all cases, butin every such instance the party charged with crime lias a responsible prosecutor upon the record, who iriay, if he swear falsely, be indicted for perjury, and also be liable tor a suit for damages. ; I '■ ~ Furthermore the Court, by virtue of its legitimate prerogative, exercises the power above referred to independently 1 , when and as the presiding judge sees fit. I ought further to add that it is a serious oi fence lor any person to attempt directly to in fluence Grand Jurors in their action qn any question hefOte thein.’ If any such attempt lias been made,and is within your own knowl edge, upon the fact being established by the oath of one or more of your own number, taken before you, a presentment may be made to the court, whereupon an indictment for embracery maybe framed, and if the party shall, upon trial, be convicted, the oftence will, most certainly, he punished according to 'aw. ..■■■ j.’<- The Grand Jury then retired. The KesrUtry Ijw. Supreme Court— Chief Justice Thompson anil Justices Read, Agnew, Sliarswood and Williams.—The argument on : tM Registry Law was continued yesterday after the close of our report. ' HciirvM. Phillips, Esq., opened the argu ment for the plaintifl's.He said he approached the subject in no partisan spirit, although lie claimed to he a partisan. He wanted the Court to decide whether the law was constitu tional or not, as he said he was as much intent esteilinthe decision as any other man. He was “native and to the :■ manor bom,” and ob jected to persons voting who,, had no business to oh inucn as any other person. He considered Mr. Gibbons liad gone too far when be stated no sound authority could be foupd for these plaintiffs tocome into the Court, and he must have overlooked the decision made by this Court a year ago. , ' - . .. He has cited severalcases, hut I only cite one. He has sneered at these plaintiffs. I do not say they are any better than one else, but they have their rights. If this law is calculated to increase the taxation, however little, and if other people do not complain, hut these plain tiffs do, there is do argumeutdn- that part ot Mr. Gibbons’s speech ,1 that they have no right to come into this court. If authority is any thing, and let us know if it is nothing,and this case is to he turned out of court because these people have no rights to come here, we have our remedy: The learned gentleman hasdemed them every right but. the right to call a con vention, and that they have. Tdo not believe vour Honors ■ will reverse the injunction. I have a great respect fortliis court,and Ido not think you will commit such a monstrous thing as that. . If the plaintiffs Lave no standing m court, why then there is no jurisdiction; but if they have a standing then there is jurisdiction. I •believe we must be governed by the constitu tion of our State, good, bad or mdiflereiit. Mr, Gibbons lias,referred ;to the , clause about .re straining oppressidh and power to introduce offices. There ie nothing in. the Constitution of ’76 which says anything like what he has stated. Referring to the argument of issuing attachments against twenty thousand persons, Mri Phillips did not understand what Mr. Gib bons meant by arguing in that way before a court. If the court.issued an injunction, why the Sheriff would have plenty ofhelp from the citizens in carrying out the orders of the Court. I hope numbers will never influence your Honors’ decisions. If the opinion of Mr. Jus tice Sliarswood is to be reversed no one will sooner acquiesce in carrying out your Honors’ instructions than Imyself, but if ifris tube sus-a tained I am sure I am doing Mr. Gibbons jus tice when I say that he did mean to convey that lie would recomnmnd disobedience.We are jn a difficult position, the onus of proving the “bill unconstitutional resting with us. We (hold tlip same position as we should before the president judge, only the order of speaking js/. reversed. Th the law consti that so far as relates to Philadelphia,anu that is all to which our bill applies, ; it is leav ing to the option of men who are not bound to perform the duty, the chance of whether we ■wifi have ah election or not- 'Therehfls never= been so fatal a mistake, as- tluitr under .which: we have labored, that of judges undertaking to perform ministerial duties where they are not required to do it. • > ■; . Mr. Phillips continued arguing in the same strain as he dill when the matter was up in the Court of Common Pleas; apid. also in the G<mn of Nisi Prius.. . . The Court then adjourned until this morning. Grand Jury Presentment. , ■■■' the aftemoon'tho (irand. Jury made. ] th© following presentment: r ■ To the Honorable the Judges of the Court of Oyer and Terminer and Quarter ■ Sessions; <£c..-- The: Grand Inquest of, the Commonwealth ot Eenhsylvania; fort 'the!' City land . County ,of Philadelphia for the June session, 1809, re spectfully present: ... V- ’ 1 ..... That; thex -have: discharged all business -brought. -before lliem w;tliouf;. fear, fayor:or affection. They have acted upon 455 bills, ox which .250 havo been retuvned as, true hills,!' ; ninlTOS) haveheenignoMd—— rt AVeliave visited the -.County: Prison, Alins-, housCj.Eastern Penitentiary t ivadHouse ot ltc : fugo, all of which avo foundlh\ most excellent condition,and in which we cati Suggestjm im provement, save an enlargement or,additional tus'isa; I Bubmil tutional? First, prison, iu order to give each prisoner a cell to, Stoits'present condition. this is.;- impossible, and in many ceils are confined WO or more : prisoners,thus promptingiinmorality and yice„ aid giving toe unfortunate, ones no nope ofi<h -formT In addltioh'totols we would also urge ! |l» establishment of a House of Correction as a«reatiy needed institution. .„ "SVe have also visited the Northern Home - for SriendlesSV Children and the Home tor “Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Orphans’, under toe ‘ same excellent management, both of which jwfetake.pleasiure in commending for > disci, MnelMcicrii^; h*s?sgpsiy fgonditMni ,J#e lieWng'thein *to lie ’among our noblest and, most successful charitable Institutions. Me would atwgest toe.nwre, ;enforce ment of the laws for ‘the "sanctity oflthe Sabbath, especially those suppressing the sale of liquors on said "day, believing that -toe non-enforcement of the results in ' oijler-lo vluj; citizen of 'hi#*just Tights, a qiner Christian Sabbath. _ ‘ „ In connection with this suggestion we also ask the full enforcement of the “license'Jaw, believing that as at present enforced it is a failure, and that many of our liquor dealers , ■ are doing business on » simple application, for license, at' a' trifling cost, without/an actual h- • Ah many preceding Grand Juries have sug gested, we too would propose a Change in the mode of compensating the Aldermen of our city, thus witnholding inducements to commit for every trivial oftence, and saving much un necessary expense to the county and, lauor to Wilson, fomman/Thotoast KilfigelOWVkecretaxy. V : Judge Ludlow said the presentment con tained valuable information; aud wisesugges tions. It wouldhe placed orfflle;’ and he most heartily thanked the Grand Jury for the pa tience,with whto^^ arduous hibdrs. Tlie Granderury waS then ilis charged from further attendance on the court- j Acceptance «f Judge WJUlains- . The following correspondence has passed ' between a committee of the .late, liepubli can State Convention' and Hon. li. W; Williams, the nominee for justice of the Supreme Court. Pittsburgh; June 25,1801).—//on. Henry W. Williams: Du Ait Sin The undersigned com mittee of the Union Republican Convention of Pennsylvania beg leave to inform you that upon the 23d of JuneinSt.,at tbgpityof Phil adelphia, you were nominated by “the unani mous vote of that Convention as the candidate of the Union Republican of this Com monwealth for the office of Judge ot the Su preme Court. In the performance of the duty assigned us, we may be permitted to add, that the fidelity and ability displaye&by you on the Supreme Bench have more than confirmed the exalted expectations of the people ■of the Commonwealth, and to express the hope that you will he pleased to signify your apprecia tion of this manifestation of _ popular Confi dence and regard by accepting the nonina tibn. - ■ . We are very truly yours, . ■ A. M. Bhown, IDavid Bakclav, M. S. Quay, B.M. Evans, Geobge Lkab, I Committee, &c. .■i. PiTTsncK(sH,June2B, IB6o.— Gentlemen: Your letter of the 25th, officially informing me, on behalf of the Union Republican Convention 1 of Pennsylvania, of my nomination at Phila delpbia, on the 23d inst., hy the unanimous vote of the convention, as the candidate of the Uiiion Reimblican party of this Common wealthfor the office of Judge of the Supreme Court, and expressing the hope that I •would be pleased to signify iny appreciation of- this manifestation of popular confidence ; and re gard by accepting the nomination, has been '' received. . a Permit me, gentlemen, in reply, to thank you for the very kind terms in which you have "been pleased to allude to the manner m which I have discharged the duties of the office,' and to express to you, and through you to the mergers of the Convention, and to the citi zens of this Commonwealth whom your; com mittee and the Convention represent,, my grateful acknowledgment for this non of ; their confidence and regard, and to I signify mv acceptance of the nomination ten dered with such entire „ unanimity. With great respect, A r ery truly yours, &c., I IL W. WIMiIAMS. Messrs. A. M. Brown, M. S. Quay, George | Lear, David Barclay, and R. >t. Evans, I Committee, &c. «NO» BOSS TILtA«EOIS.” Xbe French Country Mayor and-ths TrascUnS'Clcrk. The following amusuig sketch occurs in the series of portraits of “Men of the Second Em pire,” in the Pall Mall Gazette: Admitting this axiom, that a man can be come anything he will by only setting his heart on it, there was no valid reason why Ulysse Achille Blaireau should not have made up his mind to be an emperor. , He was less ambi tions, however; lie staked his happiness.on be coming Mayor (Mayor with a large “M,” ifyou please—Mr. Blaireau never writes it other wise); and so Mayor he became; although to at tain tliat dignity he had to toil, as he impres sively told me, until his head grew bald, and until, in one way or another, he had wasted trouble and energy enough to have made him three times .Pope and live times President of the United States. - “Mais enfin m’y voila,” he said, taking a long pull at Iris pipe. Then looking triumphantly round at six or eight of 'us seated at different tables, he added, “and you 5 11 see I shall stick there till my dying day.? “Arneii,” exclaimed a commercial traveller who had just finished a glass of absinthe, “when you have hoisted yourself on the bade of a donkey never let him kick you off.” “1 don't like those commercial travellers,” remarked the.-Mayor., to me; “the most of them come from Paris, .and they have a way of talking which I- don't always under stand; this one especially. Ahem! sir,” he cried aloud, “I hope you don’t mean to com pare the post I have the honor to hold witli the saddle of a donkey?” / “Monsieur le Maire, ’’ responded the traveler,.“the. ass is. a 'guailrnped of great antiquity. I have it on the faith of authentic documents in the possession of my family that it'was on the back of an ass that Noalrrode.down -to the ark to superin tend the embarking of his kinsmen. Midas,king of Phrygia, was, as you have naturally heard, rewarded for. his.perspieacity in judgment by the gift Of a pair of ass’s earn. The ass Of Balaam is the Only animal who is ever , recorded to have ‘spoken. Apuleius, whowasthe grandfather of M. Victor-Hugo, tells us of ah ass who had the .souf of a philosopher inside, him, and who dis ; tinguished himself greatly by his acts of benevo ; lence. The, <*reek for ,ass Was mm, whence is : derived our word honor, which will convince • you of the high repute in which asses were held by our forefathers. Finally, you have only to turn to the works of Berauger to find that the famous king of Yvetot habitually rede upon an ass.! jThe king of. YVetot, Jdonsieur le Maire, was i hereditaiy monarch of Pomerania; and, i flourished 200 years ago contemporaneously with Julius Cajsar and tienghis-Klian. These tw - o sovereigns haying entered ~.into. a league against'him, he defeated - them 1 with • loss at Fueptes d’Honor in Spain, but W'as eventually persuaded to sign a treaty with , them on the Bridge of - , Sighs 'at Venice, whence the bridge I aforesaid has- borne to this day the name of pons-Asinoriun. . -You thus see tlmt had I likened you to a man-astride :uppn an ass I should only have been comparing you, pt worst, to. the King'of Yvetot.- But my words, had a deeper,' T may say "a more symbolic •meaning. The ass, M. le Maire, is an animal renowned for its patience, its prudence, and its serene equanimity. Unlike the horse, which is quick-tempered, and requires to bo, carefully .handled, it will submit to be ridden, by any body, and take any. aruount of thraahmg , with ‘ out a uuirihiir. These ’ ’endearing qualities make it the fit symbol of certain of our agricul tiir.il d!Lsses,whose patience under the yokc, Whose indifference as to who governs them, fand whose perfect callousness to-..misgovern lnent and : oppression .are themes-of constant ad . miration to the reflective mind,” “Do you t ADEfjPHf A.SAWiCMYvII politics in- that «fiifl*: <jjQh, fto,’\(iald,tlie captain, of $». tecs fire-brigade, j»hd r tadJoveri)«Sra the, question,, “it's all:riglitf lieVipaying.us- a compliment, you'dbettdr^'-npandUiSak J liinii n ';Wcf- i; taMy,” ing askance “getEP an&ttpaok Mm," M. drew up fiis shirt collar, as Ld was wont to do at the meetings of the mu nigipal council, and began a speech in acknow ledgment: “M.ie Comrals Voyageur,” he said, “1, fcnowallabont those historical details you ■ mention; and I tbank you for your compliment, though I didn’t see it at first: i Somehow you Parisians" MvcVway of talking which is iiot like ourway. Perhaps if I liad been to Paris I might understand you, but I- haven’t been to Paris,” -“Allens, boa,” exclaimed the com mercial traveler, “fine manquait plus que here’s a mayor who’s never been to Paris,” and hejlauglieil for, tile next five minutes without stopping. iputitv I,EGAL NOTICES. TN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE Xi City l and County ofPhlliidclphia. VIRTUE C. hWeaVan v«mauy'MunjHj-, ANDREW MUB PIIY and W-OtiUX'. M Tb C eAiidUor^Sfointodttu^distribute; the brocoeds-oT Bale by the Sheriff of the BoalEs tare, to wit:—AU the estate; right, tTtlenSffiirejfntorost, i!lC I RT > i > {V, Cl A I Nnp*EW n MURI , i^ m and° *TVYLLI AM MUKI’IIY in posfy*Bßion, reversion) remainder orex pectuncy of* in.HPd to ttU that certain throc-Btory bnck ini4feungc or tcruemcntt wilh tbetwo'&tory kltchen aml s lot! or piece of ground thereunto bclougim?, ettpnte on t!io ; .eoufh' aide;* of- y* ne K street ./arid formerly npmborcd 245* now munberedll2)* between jJelawarc Front and Second streeta, CHty pf Phila delphia aforesaid, contalningin brMdth ontho Bald Vine Btrfet nineteen feet, niid io eastward bi.ground now Bouth vraid by ground uow oriftto of William Rush, westward by ground now or late of Jumps Page, aliu northward by : Vine street aforesaid. WiUlienr tho nartlea mtetysted at his office, No, 217 South Sixth Street, in theCitypf Pbtia dclphiu,ou TUESDAY, Julyflth, A.D„lBB9,atSo’clock, P. M., when and Where all tbertobg interested - Art re-, (inbred to make their claim or.be debarred ftom cottiinsln Op6n said fund. JOHN GOKORTH, Auditor 7c.NF.22d. 1809. ■■■■■■■ ■ - je23Xot. TN THE SUPREME COURT POR THE L i Eastern District wr Pcnnsylrania.-OTAnLES L now AND vs. PHILIP 8. JUSTICE ind HOAV ABD J. (MITCHELL, tradfngj.aa PHILIP, Si JUSTICE, January Term, li>63, No. mifi.fa., Jimuarytonn, 1889, r NoL 27, The Auditor obpointed. by the Uourt to dis tribute the fond in Court rcaUMd;under the .abure exe cution will attend to tho ■ duties of his appointment on TUESDAY, July 13,1869. it 11 o’clock A. »I„ at his office, No. MO Wnlnnt street,tUthe city of Philadelphia, •when and where all parties,lnterested'are.-required to make known their cluimß, or' be debarred from coming fund. THOMAS J. DIEHL, T N THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE J. i City and County of Philadelphia.-TheCommon wealth of Pennsylvania vs. thelfelrß of DOROTHEA JABKETT,deceased: No. 321, JUneTcrm. A.D; Wffl. Levari Focuu.-Tlio Auditor appointed bv the Court to report distribution of the fund raised by the sale* under theaboYe writ, ground situate on Chestnut Hill* 111 the-city of Philadel phia, on the n o rtheasterljr side of Germantown and Pcr kioinen Turnpike road, containing four- acres* less, as per deed from GEORGE JABItET and Wlfeidated January 18th. 1830, and recorded In Deed Book A. M. No. 3. page 17, May 21st, 1830,” will meet* forthe purposes of his appointment, at hi* Southeastcorfter' of_\Val nutand Sixth etreetsfsecond stomdnthocityof Phila delphia, on TUESDAY, the sixth. day .OfJuly, A. D. 18©, at 11 o T clock, A. M.,when and where all persons are required to make their claims,or be debarred from com- said fund. geO .j CH KIN. Auditor. TN THE ORPHANS’ COURT FOR THE X I City and County of Philadelphia Estate of OEOB6E McKADDEN, deceased.—The Auditor ap pointed by the Court to andit, settle, and adiußt .the ac countfi of CHABLOTTE McPADDEN. AdiniuiStratrix. and GEOBGE H. McKADDEN, Administrator; d.Jb. n., of GEOBGE McKADDEN, deceasedi and. to . report dis tribution of the balance in tho liands of .the accountant, fea hi9omre ’ ,K3WaIDDt ■ jgH th.smst* Auditor. TN THE ORPHANS’ COURT FOR THE I • City and County of Philadelphia. Estate of JOHN wn,DEY, decease,!. The Auditor appointed by the Court to audit, settle and adjust the account of ELIZA BETH WILDEY, Administratrix of JOHN TVTLDEI, deceased, and to report distribution of tha halance in the hands of the occoantant, will meet the parties interested SWSFToS ° f FhU PEIBCE, Auditor. TN THE ORPHANS’ COURT FOR THE I »City end County of Philadelphia. T E6tate 6f 'BACHED R. SPENCER, deceafled. Tho Auditor ap tKiinted by the Courtto audit, settle, and adjust the first fmd final account of JAMES S.SPEltcF.n,administrator of the estate of RACHEL B. SPENCEB, < 1 oce;•*. 1, and to repbrt'distributlon of the balance in the hands of tho accountant, will meet the Parties i»t?7mtod. for the pur pose of his appointment, on WEDNESDAY, July 14. 1869,at eleven o’clock, A. M.» at Ills office, No. 5-1 Walnut street! No. 12, second floor, in the city of PliUa delphia. HABVEY O.WABBEN, jylthstuSt* Auditor. TK THE ORPHANS’ COURT FOR THE Jl City and County of Philadelphia.—Estate'of-JACOB VEY,, deceased—The Auditor appointed ip; the Court to audit, settle, and adjust the account of PHILIP KOLL MEIt, one of the Executors of J ACOB -VEY, deceased, and to report distribution of tha balance in the hands of the accountant, will meet the parties th ? purpose of his appointment, on MONDAY, Jul> 12th, at 11 o’clock A. M., at his office, No, 13d South Sixth[Street, in the City of Philadelphia. 1 ■ jyl thgtn «*_ TN THE ORPHANS’ COURT FOR THE .1 City and Connty of Philadelphia,—Estate of GEORGE HAWKINS, deceased. The Auditor ap pointed by the Court to audit, settle, and a*ust the account of EHWABD COPPEE MITCHELL, Executor of estate of GEOBGE HAWKINS, deceased, and to re port distribution of the balance m the hands of the ac countant. will meet the P»rticA interested, for the pur ■poseof his appointment, on MONDAY, July 12th,at 12 o’clock, M., at his office, No. 134 South Sixth street, iu .the city of Philadelphia. jyl th s tnst IN THE ORPHANS’ COURT FOR THE City and County of Philadelphia.—Lstatoof SOPHIA B. CAKB, deceased. —The. Auditor appointed by the Court tonudit, settle, anil adjust the account of GEORGE M. DALLAS, Administrator of SOPHIA B. CARR, de ceased, and to report distribution of the balance m the hands of the accountant, will meet the part ies interested for the purpose of his appointment, oil MONDAY, the 12th day of July, 1869. at 12 o’clock, SI., at No. 222 South Fourth street, in the City of Philadelphia jt*29 tu th b 5t ■ CHA&- O’KKIIjLi Auuitor._ TN the ORPHANS’ COURT FOR THE J_ City and County of Philadelphia.— Eßtate of MARY LCKENB. The Auditor appointed bytbe Court to audit, settle and adjust, the account of GEOJtCiE . FITZ WATEK, Administrator of Estato of MAKY IiUKENS, deceased, and to report distribution of, the balance in the bands of the.accountant, will meet the parties in terested, for tlie purpose of bis appointment, on WED NESDAY, the7tu day of Ju1y,1&39, at 4 o'clock, P. M.» at 486 North THIRD s * rce M,-g , J| e^lt^ I °]^ETTEi, h / „ Auditor. tli B tust* TN THE ORPHANS’ COURT FOE THE 1 City and County of Philadelphia.—Estate of lIENIO. DEBINGEB, decenßed—The Auditor appointed by the Court to audit, settle,and adjust tho account of HIE-. OI’HILTIS T.DEBXNGEB, Acting Executor of HENBY DEBINGEB, deceased, and to report distribution ot tho balance in the hands of the accountant, will meet tho parties interested for tho purpose of his appointtnont, in MONDAY, July 12th, 1869, ot 3 o’clock I*. M., at li a ofbco.No. 125 South Seventh ■ dolphin.-. LEONAItD MY KBS, jyl thstu-st§ - .AH. l ?**?!: TNTHEORPHANS’ court for the I City and County of Philadelphia.—Estate of CATHA BINE SMITH, deceaßed.-Tho Auditor appointed by the Court to audit. Bottle and adjust the: account of JA COB* S.SHIMEB and CAHOLINE O. SHIMEB, Admui ietratorß, Ac., of CAT HA ItINE SMITH, deceased, and to report distribution of tho balance iuthe hands of the accountants, will moot the Per‘k'a lntereßUd, for tbe purposesof his appointment, on MONDAY! July l*th, 1869, at 4 o'clock P. M., at his office, Boom No. 10 Law Building, No. 632 Walnut street, in the city of Philadel phia; . ' jyl-th btust TNiTHE ORPHANS’ COUBT FOB THE ELIZAÐ SOULIiIEB, jlMoum?d.-.Tho Auditor nr lulininietrator' of the estate SOUL DIEE, deceased, and to report distribution or the bal ance in the hands of the accountant, will moot tho par. ties Interested for the purpose of his appointment, on MONDAY, July' 12tli, 1860,at 12>£ o’clock, I*. M.,at his oflico, southeast corner of Sixth and Walnut Btreets, - in the city of Philadelphia. ■. ■ , iyl .tli htu fit* • ■ JOHN M. COLLINS, Ami „T,Ni THE ORPHANS’ COURT FOR THE vJI-City and County of Philadelphia.—Estateof JOHN YvANDELL, deceased.—Tlie Auditor appointed by the Court to audit, settle and adjust the account of WJIj 11AM M. DAVID, Administrator ot the JSstato or JOHN WANDELL, lato of Germantown, city of Philadelphia, deceased, and* to mako distribution of the balance in the huiida of the accountant, will meet the parties Intcreetod ' JOr tho purposes of his appointment,, on MONDAY, i July'lZtln 1809,at ll o'clock: A. Sl.,'at lile offleo, N 0.9, I law JUulliling, 8. K. corner of Sixth and Walnut streets, . tn'tbo city of Philadelphia. , . jyltiistnsf ■ TESTATE OF ISRAEL. S. ELLIOTT, Sh deceased. The Auditor-appolnted by to 'audit! and sottio and adjust tlie account of Jol>n McCor micks administrator a. 6. «. e. t. a. .of IBBAJEL H.-kL CIOTT, deceased, and to report distribution of tho bal ance! in the. hands or the accountant,, will • meet tho . parties interested for the purposes of hiß appointment, „pn TUESDAY, July6th, 1809,at 11 o’clock, A.M.,atluß fSjfflcd, No. 619 tValuut street, Boom No 1.1, in. tlio city of Philadelphia. ' jeM th,s,tujt__ TN j THE- DISTRICT, COURT' OR THE I Traitcd States for tlio Eastern District of Ponnsylva nia --111 Bankruptcy.—At P 1 ii! luiolp 1 lili. t 1 1 0 12th, day of iBre<fiSa4E6!JSlS»SsSjfHWffiSSSS,.SS!fi|s trict Court of suut District, To the creditors of said ’Assltfuce. South Sixth street. rt EATHI IT G FELT. —TEN FRAMES fcEnoUßh Sheathing Felt, for BdlO bfPKTBR WEIGHT jFBOMB. US Wftlnut stroot. «s£*» ' . %3%%§V ! ' ov « in m< I; * United States 2,000,000 jD/w/y Receipts.over $20,000.00 Premiums in 1868, $5,665,075-0° Losses in 1868, $3,662,445.00 No. 6 Merchant/ Exchange, Philadelphia. rnHE RELIANCE' usstteahoie Co®£- ; • Insures against loss or damage pjrJFIBIs* < on Honsea, Stores and other Buildjngs, Hnuted or perpotnal. and on, Furniture, GOods, Wares and HerchAndlse in-town or C ° d I,oSBESPEOMPTX J Y ADJtISTED AND PATOv - I .tfl&Wi at. ! Invested In thefollowingSecoritles, viz:: First Mortgages on City: Property, well so-. ■. „ United States Government 10an5.......—.— 117,000 00 Philadelphia City 6 Per Cent. 1,0au5.....i..-....i. iW 00 Pennsylvania 83000,000 0 Per Cent 10an.... 30000 00 PenußylvaniaEftilroadßondß, First Mortgngo 6,000 00 Camden and Amhoyßailroad Company’so Per - ■■ Cent. loan--....,-.«.i——JcJ loans on C0110tem18............-...- - .. *-..-;-. 600 W Huntingdon and Broad Top 7 Per Cent. Mert- ifigago Countj^ro BTnsurnnce^Company’s'B£jct"!: 8 Tnsurnnce^Company’s'8£jct"!: OO Mechanics’ Bank 8t0ck....-..-.;i.....---~-; —- 99 Commercial Bank or Pennsylvania Stock 10000 00 Union Mutiml Insurance Oompiuiy’s 5t0ck...... 330 00 Bclinnce Insurance Company, of Philadelphia • Stack w Cash inßank and on hand. .......... ........... 3% .. $437,698 S 3 ;$45M8132 Worth at Par. Worth this date at market! prices. DIBECTOBS. ■■■■ Thomas C. Hill,' Thomas H. Moore, William Musscr, Samuel Costner, Samuel Bispham, ' JamcsT. Votmg, H. L.Caraofci . • IsaacP. Bakw,_ Wm. Stevenson, ChxisUanJ-Hoffman, BeUj. W. Tinglcy, Samuel B, Thomas, Edward Slter. „„ _ _ ~ . THOMAS C.HIMi, President. Wm. Chubb, Secretary, ■:r . ' Philadelphia, February 17,1869. A NTHItAd T E INSURANCE COM iXPANy.^-OHARTEBPEBPETUAI,. Office, h’o.3UWALNDI Btreet, aboveThlrd, Phllada. Wili insure agatdst Boss or Damage by Fire on Build ings, cither perpetually or,for a limited time, Household FurniturepndMi-.i'cluibdisogenerally. . n , . 1 Also,' Murineilusuriince ou,. Vessels, ‘CargoM. and Freights. Inland Insurance *SSIJ P‘ utß °* the union. William Esher, LewisAadenrled, D. Luther; ' , JohnKetcham, . John B.Blackiston, J.E.Baum, , William F. Dean; Johnß.Heyl, _ Peter Sieger/ Samuel 11. Bothennel. r ' ■ \VIDtIAM ESHEB, President" „ WILLIAM F. DEAN, Vice President. :WM. M. Smith. Secretary. jaß tu th s tf AMERICAN' EIRE INSURANCE OOM XXPANVi incorporated iSIO.-Oharter perpetual. tfto.m WALNOT street,above Third,Philadelphia. Having a large paii-up Capital Stock and Burplus in vested in sound and available Securities, continue to insure on dwellingsi-stores, furniture, merchandise, vessels in port, null their cargoes, aud otHer personal .property. *Air\oasea liberally and promptly adjusted. Thomas B. Marisi ' Edmand O. ©utiltj, John Welsh, Charles W. Poultnoy, Patrick Brady, . Israel Morris, John T Lewis, John P. Wetherlll, Joan i.neais, William Sv. Paul. . THOMAS B. MABIS, President. Secretary. TTIAMe INSURANCE COMPANY, NO. fcoMI^ra^|toBPEBPETHAD^ FIEE INSUEANChi EXCLUSIVELY. ■ _ _ Insures against Loss or Damage by Fire, either by Per petual or Temporary Policies. • directors.. . Charles Richardson , Robert P e Mce,_ Wm.H. Rbavrn, John Kessler, Jr., Francis N. Buck, Edward B.Orne, Henry I*ewis« Charlea.Stokes*^ Nathan Hilles, John W. Everman, George A, West, > • Mordecal Bnzhy, ueorgon, v. CHABtIEBBICH AM)BON, President, WM. 11. BHAWN. Vico-Preaident. WILLIAMB I. BLANCHARD, Secretary. ■ apl tt SHIPPERS’ GUIDE. _> OR BOSTON .—STEAM SHIP DINE DI KECT, HAILING FROM EACH TORT EVERY Wednesday and Saturday. FROM PINE STREET. PHILADELPHIA, AND miVSL WHABF,BOSTON. This line is compbaed'of the,first-class Steamßhipß. liOStAN, 1,488 tonß, Captain O. Baker SAXON, 1,250 tons.CaptHinSears. NORMAN, 1,293 tons. Captain Crowell. ABIES, 832 tons, Captain Wiley. ■ • - _ The SAXON, from piillaT, w “dnsday,Jnly 7,at IO,A. M. Tho NOBMAfi.froni Boston, Saturday. July 3,1at3 P.Wh These Steamßhipß sail punctually, and Freight wUI he received every Stcamerbeingalways on tnebertn. Freight for points beyond Boston sent "with despatch. JpfrtI ieiSht ° r my3l 338 South,Delaware ayenuo. Philadelphia, Richmond and < NORFOLK STEAMSHIP LINE. THROUGHIBBIGHIAirLffiK .TO THE SOUTH EVERT SATURDAY, at Noon, frdin FIRST WHARF above it ARKET Street. THROUGH RATES to aU points in North and South Carolina via Seaboard Air-Lind Railtoadi connecting at Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va:» Tennessee and tho West via Virginia and rTonheaseo Air-Line and Rich mond and Danvillo Railroad. • • . , , T nwt , l> Freight HANDLED BUT taken at LOWER BATES THAN ANY OTHER LINE. The regularity, safety and' cheapness of this route commcndit to the public as tlm moat desirable medium for earn ing every description of freight. . N o charge for commission, drayago, or any. expensp for transfer. . ' , . . Steamships insure at lowest rates. Freight received D 4 P. CLYDE & CO. No. i 2 South Wharves and Pier Nn. 1 North Wharvos. \\\ P. PORTER, Agent atlUchniond and City Point. T. P. CROWELL & CO., Agents at Norfolk. PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY’S REGULAR LINES, FROM QUEEN STREET . winh tuo Juniata win sail for new Orleans, T NEW ORLEANS, via Toiia\VAND A will sail for SAVANNAH on Saturdny. July 3,atBo’clock A. M. The TONAWANDA will sail from SAVANNAH on S Thjp'loNEEßwiU sail for WILMINGTON, N. 0.,0n T lliraugli b’ilVs of’lading signed, and passage tickets BILLS of nbINGSIGNEDrt‘QUEEN ST. WHARF. For freight or fM to Qeuora! Agent, . 130 South Third street. New express line to alexan drift', Georgetown und Washington, D. 0., viaOhea uneako and Delaware Canal, with, connections at Alex andria from the moat direct route for Lynchburg, . Bris tol Knoxville, Nashville, Daltou.and the Southwest. Steamers leave regularly.from tho first wharf above c 0.7, No; 12 South Wharves and Pier 1 North Wharves. XTOTIOE -FOR NEW YORK. VIADEL JN AWARE AND BAItITAN CANAL EXPRESS. TL6CHEAPI«T S hmf'ouiCKEST i w.itor communica- I sOceta'hiladolphis, aiid foot of Wall street, Now York. York-fife"“« SfCommiBsion^ OW te^ 1 ' 1 re ° oi ' ° d WM. o^K^ AT OTICE.—FOR NEW'YORK, VIA DEI<- * AND SWIFTBUBEiWB|E|;. ’ Th 6 husincss of those lfiioß will bo resj^^t -Atmmler the 19th of March. For froight, which. willbetaSou on accommodating apply to A CO., b _ T7IOR LIVERPOOL, WITH. DESPATCH. M'ovir^ •atreot.;;. TkELAWABE AND CHESAPEAKE Jfl Btciun Tow-Boat CompanylJarges towodbotween PWladolpliia,. JJaltimoro, Ilavro <lo Graoo, Delaworo | Übu XJomiinny—■Di>oVatol* «nil -Bw*£ tll " r< J a tO - AVMI M - DAI ” * '■ITFiSTED-A'vESSEIi -TO BEING A |v W Yellow pfao Immber frnra ft j>prt In, :>. now readyi" Aptly to North front stmt, ■ /-#jj . ■ 1 * L*s/il V.! WAIESOISMfe' .•;.„ •1” 'W£%&Moru£&see'k / mhsaTiyS,. . ; rf -..-i f> a.A »>-.?*i • MAULE, BROTHER i<So., I s u' Vf >»?.i “svi, ‘y» ;H | * r ,SSCH> * >v n V 1569: 18#/ "J ‘■ x r ' CHOICE SELECTION *' iQCfI SPKtrCE ANI> HEMEiOCK.I QYJfI low. SJfBDOE ANDHKM3LOOK.' lO0». i , J.ABOE STOCK. -iii • J OUft fLoKIDA FLOORING. -I Q/*a ' t ' lpOtf. 1009. f , WALNtnPgIOOBINPj. , ‘V'■* w ■a FLORID A STEP BOARDS."! OOtk »ef. FROBIDA STEP BOARDS. AOOtF. 1 QftQ WALNUT BOABJDS ANDtQftQ Wainut plans;.,. , ‘ WALNUT.BOA.BPS. • WALNUTiPLANIv, , ASSORTED . \ Jf 08, 'CABINETMAKERS, ' BUILDERS. AC. UNDERTAKERS’ IOUU. ' LUMBER. ' 'i . UNDERTAKERS ’ LUMBER. RED OEDAB. „„ : WALNUT AND PINE. IQfiQ SEASONED POPLAR. -|Q£Q loby. IOOU. WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS. HICKORY- ■ . ' , ■ NORWAY SCANTLING. ' IQCO CEDAitSBINOi<‘BS. loby. CEDAR n SHINGLES. 100(7. ; CYPRESS SHINGLES. large assortment. • - ’ FOB SALE LOW. 1869. 1869: rnHOMAS & POHL, LUMBER MER- A' chants, No.loll 8. Fourth .street. At their wrt •will lie found Walnut, Ash, Poplar, ChorryrPm«. Homr lftrk Ae.Ae .at reasonable urlces. Give them a call. jock, «c., «c., at rv**ou*viv . •.mhir-flm* "■ v • •• TO CONTRACTORS, , LUMBERMEN land Ship-builders.—We ore nowproparod to execute promptly order* • for SouthOm Pine Timber, ’ Bhitmtuffand Lumber. COCHRAN, RUHBELLACO, r; 22 NorthFrdntstreet: , • - ~ • mhZttf . jal-tu thatf ViELLOW PINE LUMBER.—ORDEBJS Xi for cargoea of everr descrlptlon Sawed Lumber ox»-. cutod at short notice—quality subject Jo inspection; Apply to EDW: R.BOWLEY, ISSouth.WteatTSg.; .j».' JAMES A. EREEMAN, AUCTIONEER, No.422WALNlTl!strtot;- ! Exocntor’a Suloat Prankforu.' • .'.p f?-i • TOOLS.LATHES AND MAG'HINERYOF ABRABS BOLtINO MIDL AND DAMP-TOP FACTOBTv -V ON FRIDAY MORNING, ’ July 9, at 11 o’clock, will be sold by order of the «- centor of Joßeph T. Vankirk, dccensod, at HetUt •:' and Oxford streets, Frankford, tlio entire MiU-.hincWy, comprising Side Lathos, Foot and Power Presses; Forrl*- ing’and,Drawing ami Piercing Presses,, Turning,Bor- • tdsbing and Assorted Lathes, Collar CuttmgMachlno, Slitting Machine,: CruMicr;Benches, Boxes,Tools, 1 Ao. Sal? absolute. Tctoih cash. s aI.T. OP THE STEAM TUG-BOAT _ GKNEBAL GEOBGE «. MEADE. • t ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, ~ a ■July 14, at 3 o'clock, will be sold at Vine streot wharf.’ on the Delaware. the steam tugrboat General MeqaAt.i; 591-'feet long, 16JS feet wide, 6 3-19, feet in depth, and meitsures 31 toiißW Him stwuh engine, bodort-safety valyes, supply pipes, gungea, &c., and.u in good runntpg , order. May Be examined any day wfter 3 o’clock, at ’« Sausom streot wharf,:ou the river Schuylkdl. ftpOOt» he paid at time of sale. ' ' . -rf AVIS & AUCTIONEERS, J il . -X- rtLftt#with : M.ThomaiiABwttS.-)t, » 1 5 Store Nos. 48 and fO North SIXTIJ etreoi; J at the: Auction Boomsj ’NoB. 48 apd £0 > w i Morth Sixth atTcet* below Arch street m ELEGANT OILED WALNUT FURNITURE,-BOOK- 1 CASE .FRENCH PLATE HlniiOßS, NEW .bIHE-„ * PBOOfc SAFES, PIANO. OFFICE AND DESKS, ENGLISH BRUSSELS CARPETS. HAND SOME COTTAGE SHITS, *c. s , . ON TUESDAY MORNING, , At lB o’clock, at , the auction rooms, including a splen- i ! did (assortment of very superior Parlor- Suits, In hair ‘ ) cloth and terry; Loungeß. elegant Walnut and Oak Side- J , hoaids,,‘very superior Bookcases, Walnut ’-Extensions' v-i Table, handsome Oottogo Suits,, with.marble tops; threo « now Fireproof Safes. host makers: superior Office Tables M and* Desks, fine English Brussels and Tapoßtry, Carpets, ■ Mutrcsses (new), Beds', Chink and Glassware, House- ■ bF C 'A FUBNITtIRE 1 This sale nlsoJncludea the Stock oTa Furniture Store S declining business: now Carpets, Ou Cloths* «c... .• .• a , Also, the Furniture of several dwellings, most, of 3 which is equal to new. , , < i BST Now ready for examination, v • • M HiT THOMAS & SONS, AUCTIONEERS, A IVI. , , Nos. 139 and Ml Bouth FOURTH Btrpot. fj T SALES OF STOCKS AND REAL ESTATE. / I Public sales at the Philadelphia Exohangs every L<a TBESDAY,at 12o’clock. . . w, V S tgr- Furniture sales at the Auction Storo EVEHa ,SE THURSDAY^i^ <)Hl j e^ceß rec eiTe especial attention. - SALE ON tfOE PREMISES. „ 3 VERY DESIRABLE GOTHIC COTTAGES,., GREEN HOUSKy Ac., ‘ "• CHURCH STREET, BEVERLY, JfyJ. I f4l On SATURDAY; AFTEItNOON, si July 3,18511, at .4 o’clock, will be sold at public sale, . PorficularsVu handbills at tile auction rooms,'l33 ani;sj 141 South Fourth street. : , •;« & CO., A#CTItHT~I ' I. EERB. No. 605 MARKET Btreot. above FifthV j M SPECIAL SALE OF BOOTS AND SHOES, « . ' ON WEDNESDAY MORNING, . |g Jnly 7, at 18 o’clock, wo will sell by catalogue, ahouKjg aoo cases Boots and Shoes, of city and Eastern to which tho attention of buyers Is called. • ■ -: aB mHE PRINCIPAL MONEY ESTABLISH I ment —S.E, corner of SIXTH and RAC 13 Htreot9*\' Mqney advanced on Merchandise .generally—Watcnei Jewelry, Diamonds, Gold and Silver. Plate, and on A] articles ofviilue, for any timoagreetl WATCHES Alii) J E WELRY AT PRIVATE. SAE Fine Gold Hunting Case, Double Bottom and Open Kfi English, American ana Swiss Pateut:Xevpr.'W4ttop Fiue Gold Hunting Caso and Open FaceLcpiue Watch Fine Gold Duplex and otborWatches; Fine SilverHn ing Case and Open Face- English, American ana -Ss pjrtejit Lever andDepine Watches; poublfrCaflnKwea Sunnier and.other Watches;. Ladies’Fancy -Wata* iamond Breastpins; Finger Bings; Ear Rings;,St Ac.;'Fine Gold Chains; Modalhous; Bracelets;*# pins; Breastpins; Finger Rings; Pouoil Cases and,J G 1 ?0?t I BALE —A largo and valuable Fireproo&Ot suitable for a Jeweller; cost 8.650, Also, several Lots in South OamdenyFiftn. hut streets. .• * '• '• : T IHOMAS BXKCH & SON, At EEBS AND COMMISSION MEBpJJB : No.lllo CHESTNUT strew, Bear entrance No. lldrSajisom/StEAS; Household Furniture of every doscriptiOiKi ConaiEiimcnt. '.JaIM Saleß of Furniture at dweUliiES attanqw,« reasonable terms. ■ ■ -• w.» ISmMIh m a. moclelt^d.aw • • CONCERN HALI*. AXimOB Boar entrance on Household'Fiirnituro nhd filerchioa serin tion received on. fconsignment.'; at dwellings attended to on reasonable. n D7ircULEESTfcUo., No. 606 MARKET uti BOOT AND SHOE SAD||BVEK T>TJNTING, DTJEBOIIO W SY BABBITT & CO., .'JS CASH ArCTION'HI No. 230 MABKET stroet* corgi Cash advanced 1 on cbnaigphiontafflfc T> SCOTT,.Tb.,A(JOTI< H. . I-SCOTT'S ART G; JO2O CHESTNUT Street iiyf ARTIN BROTHERS IVI (Irately Sitleatnen tat Vi Ko; 629 CHESUNPT Btregtif^l •jameb fi.Svi tho»w^ COMi tHKODOH* WBUi PETEK Via? ■ Impor^Otogg Shlpplii?y»nil^™ /COTTON. 81 V/ width, from*? Tentand ,A’ ■ “ Twine, &c ja2C )nrvx ;crty—Xl tinfoiSato • wfe'i-ivi 1 (■'.rtT'yfey,.' auction sales. BIfSINESI 1869.
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