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"Didn't I . say that you were to stop all f work for ihe'present?" was the , severe apes trophe. •.: , 1 fallback with a groan. " Stap''...s.' few 'days; and ni tell you all • about it—that is, if you will condescend to get well first under my treatment." " do my best," I said ; and I really slid ; so that, a week after, my friend tlie.deseter wtiS sitting with me, ready to. relate the promised • tale, while I was all attention. ,"‘.l had a patidnt thawn in Surreys some tinie siticdi" he Sala, "With a complaint, that. re gularly baffled me. Ile was a baililf, or some :At thing of that'sort, living entirely-. alone as '• to 'human society; but .he had for coin- pardon that great white dog—now mine, you know: 'Well,' 'attended him for weeks ; '* and then:one dtrYt FsAid to him,' Now, frankly, 7 " . "- it's a regular robbery for me to keep on coining here when I can do you no good. The long and the short of it is, medicine won't touch you,—voirr mind's diseased. You have some thing upon it. Now, what is it ?' "The poor fellow was silent for a few minutes, and th6n rising upon' his elbow, his pale, drawn firi'e all wild and scared of aspect, be caught me by the arm, whispering, How did you find it out?' " By your manner,' I replied; and, depend upon it, you will be all the better if, you re lieve your ha* of the stress.' 4 , 'Vaster,' lie said, with a Wild look, ' it's that dog'; and he pointed to the great animal. " That dog 2' " Yes, and something else. He knows it all, and I'm afraid of trim; but, before I go, I'll tell you all about it.' "Her seemed to be struggling for some rtio moats, with 4 great* emotion, and then fixing his eyes on mine, he began, pointing as he spoke.towards the dog: "' I tried UAW hiM again and again,sir, but I couldn't, and Fm sorry now that I ever tried, for he was always agood and faithful beast. Come heit, Flee.' ;, and the great dog came up to 'the' bedside, and licked his master's thin white hand. 'l'd ask you to forgive me, Elec., old fellow, but you are only a dog, ant would not understand me ; but though I'm a man, and you're but a dumb beast, I'd be glad to change . places with you this moment.—You know, tar, when .my wife went away, and she was' supposed to have gone to her father and mother ?' "I nodded. "'Well, sir, it-was not my poor wife, but her sister, who had been staying with us, whom I saw into the. train that morning, at Hindley Station *a it was: directly I reached home that a tiny spark, that had been pricking and tingling in my heart for months past, suddenly burst out into a fierce flame—so fierce that I could not quench it,—and I did a deed that no one ever suspected. I need not go into all that now, but I had had little suespicioni for Tong enough,—susplcions that I know now to have been false; while, when I returned that day, I fanciedeomething more,and angrily accused her. I don't even know myself how it happened, more than that she retorted fiercely, and ran up stairs, where I followed her; and then, more words passing; I struck her brutally with my fist,—a cruel, cowardly blow,—and with a laud cry, she pitched backwards rom top to bottom of El% stairs • and then, after .the heavy, dull crash with which she fell, all was quite still, for I stood still listening, till old Hector there burst into a low, whimpering howl. "'Then., all trembling, I went down slowly to find her lying in the little pas - sat-A quite motionfess, with the dog lickieg her face; while. when I - drove - him away and spoke to her, she did not answer. Then I went down teen one knee to alter her position, for she was taar a a, steered as I thought, with one arm ten: ant leer her, and her heed tarned in a awkward way. I :rembled violently, fur :het:alai alas :t her only sunned, with peanyilly are..seeb broken. all the time there was a arali, iterrne'ea, blatk contra.: up like a eiecd eater r:y soar- though as. yet I could met azaleretiad rafaat; F• meeee " - 1.5ae...-itlered.. thenealta as I moved Ler, for her. 14 - earl leteag itaek horribly. while, when I iireebei her eLear-eralaion to rest it upon, her revs seeeal to use aay too easily. But I saw I'Ltlit Mr -meat that her arm was broken.; it in what I thought to be an easy p a ie e t e.; , 1 fetched water, and began to bathe be fax* abd temples, r. oppine, once to threataet Lie dog, who kept on howling in the kitchen. Being a ours is a lonely place, and there was no oae near, or I should have called in help; for, as time passed on, aud she did not revive, the strange black feel ing seemed to grow thicker and more dense, though I would not give way to it as yet. I tried salts, brandy, burned feathers, chafing her'cold hands, every remedy that I could think of, persevering for quite an hoar ; when all at once the black cloud seemed to cover me, and I jumped up, trembling worse than ever, for I knew that; she was dead—that I had murdered her! "I've suffered since, sir, every torment and pang that can come from a man's conscience,—such stings as- 1 could hardly have thought a human being could bear, and not go mad; but they have all been as nothing, compared to the horrible feel ing that came over me when I first knew the dreadful truth. First knew it! I had known it all atone, from the moment after I struck the blow ; but there was somethinnewithin tee that kept beating it 011 till now, when' it came upon me - like blasting lightning. At first, it was a frightful fiteling of re morse and sorrow, and I would have given my ONCII life to have brought her back, as I threw myself down by .her side, calling her by name, laneeing her to forgive rue, and kissing the , face that, wits brat growing colder and colder. Then came a sense of fear, and 1 slit ank hack, scarcely daring to he 'near her, and- glad at last to lay my handkerchief over her face ; while that soon changed to a cowardly leen inn: - of dread,—not of her, nor event of future punishment, for my malt ought-of 'deed, but for the present, and the time when , it would be, thund out. " For a few moments my head swain. and I nearly fell, while thoughts crowded into my head of Aga! police, handcuffs, the 'lira son, the judge, and, last of all, the' gal lows. What could I do?. How could f .. . - hide the deed?' CialidTahn, say that site had fallen' from top to bottom of the stairs, and would not that have been sufficient? Quite, I thought; and putting on my hat,l was about to nin.oirto the town for a doctor, when I recol lected that it was more than two hours since she had fallen, And that she was growing cold ; while soon as the medical mon began to viestionine, kuetv that I should betray my self, ' : ' 4 dared not go ;, I dared not stir from the honsei Itlared :not stay; and in my dread I got;the deg close to me, and struck him when 1900, :in my : face and howled. At least adozen times I -went and looked at the_body ' lyiui there, so horribly stil4l) l 4l.its very silence, speaking to me in a totiov,'lstionititt wan that I was, that I could readio t OrmOhead, now a 'reliant(' fee4ol . 44llsbnes had. taken possession of one,' nd was pondering as to how 1 should iion*l the deed. I had been a great reader, TJI DAILY ,EVENING BULLETIN—PHILAD,P.IPHIA # THURSPAY, DE,MdfIEW23 413694-M440 RHANA! living so much in a quiet, retired ,part,' and I tried to recalbwhetber I had over read, of any mien being du similar PoSition to' MY' liking at last upon Eugene , Antift. "'Whenever the dread seemed greater than I could bear, I kept telling myself that I had never meant to do the deed ; and havingspirits' in the Louse, I. drank,--"drank ,deeply 2 but, Without producing the'ellecentislied.'" " Towards evening, first one and then au ' other person' came to the cottage, and as I heard their steps I trembled; for it seemed to me that some one was, coming to ask met the question : Where is your , wife ? But no : I faced them one by one,—the baker, the woman who brought us yeast and milk, and a hawking gypsy. " " I saw yon and your misaits at the sta tion this morning, sir, 'said the woman who left the yeast. "Is 'she goin' to stay away long?" " Yes,' said, "for some' Ulm ;" and my heart Fate a great leap, as these words sug gested to me that other people might have" made :the same mistake, and it would ' be generally supposed that she had left home on a But about the, body.—what shouhL I do with it ? I tried to tbiiik what. I should .do; but now there came a fresh struggle, -new horror to contend with. Something Was urging me ; voices seemed'whisperina e' 'to me, guiding me to the place where I kept my guns, and then, trembling-in every limb, I ' , leaded one,--two barrels,—afid sat down thinking for a while. It seemed the best thing I could ; but I rose to take one more look at her as she lay in the passage so cold and still. I laid down my gun and crossed the room, but for a long time 1 could not remove my handkerchief from her face, while, when I did, it was but for a moment, and I dropped it again shuddering. Then I seemed to have heard voicea outside, and I ran out, and looked up and down the lane, and round the house, but I was alone; and once more I entered, closed the doer and took up my gun. " ' But I •dattd".. not do it : I was a coward, and I ' feared to meet the future. I wanted to live on and re pent; to try and make amends, it' it were pos sible; and thus I waited, hour after hour,— liouV after hour, always haunted by the dread of yokes Which seemed whispering round me. Twice I thought she called, and I started and answered trembling, going each time as far as the passage, to come back shaking like a leaf, after touching the hand, by this • time cold as marble. "'I had put the gun back in its corner, merely, keeping the ramrod in my hand, with' which, tomtime to time, I struck the dog, to keep. nun -.quiet, for the poor beaSt would go liir - the room-door and howl dismally, till I forced him to lie at my feet; while now he seemed afraid of me and I of him, for be kept looking in my, face, and whining, and Then looking towards the door; and had I not struck hini he would have kept by it, tearing to get it open. 'The dim light of evening came at last, with the dread growing more and more upon me as the darkness increased. I dared not light'a candle,—l don't know why; but I felt a sort of fear that* 1 should see snore than was really in the house, and besides, I should have bad to go in the'dark along the little pas Sage to the kitchen, *ugh I tried to persuade myself that it was on ac , count of the dog, and a dread that he should get out of the room. "'And then came the night, windy and *stormy, with the rain riding upon the gusts of wind, to be beaten against the window-panes. There - was but little moon, and the clouds were heavy, and drove quickly along the sky; while now, in the intervals of the gusts of wind, it seemed to me more and more that there was a voice calling me, as if from a great distance off, so that the sound came faintly upon my ear. I listened again and again, opening the door, and standing bareheaded in the rain, but I could hear nothing. " Hours passed, and then I had made up my mind what to do. I locked the door of the room where I was sitting; went round to ,the back, so as not to pass through the passage, and locked the hack door. Thes, going back Ito the front room, I found Hector whipmg,and tearing at the door to get to his mistress; and I called him away, but Without etiect ; when, after a &tee battle, I dragged him out of the I house to a shed, where I locked him in, after I taking out a spade. • The dog began to bowl as soon as I had closed the door; but I knew that there was no one to hear him; so I went back to the house, sed and locked the door, and ear -1 tied the spade to a spot I had de termined on; after which I again returned to I the house, hesitating at the door, however, • half afraid to enter. Hector was quiet now, only scratching restlessly at the door of the shed. "'After waiting perhaps a quarter of an hour, passed in listening, I roused myself, arid went in, drank furiously from the brandy I had, in the closet; and then tearing open the inner door, I stooped, seized the body, which seemed like lead, and staggered with it out into the lane. '•'l can't tell now bow I got along, with the long, low howl of the dog ringing in my ears, as he heard my heavy, staggering footsteps. I seemed, as 1. went on, to have the strength of ten men, and-the feats of a hundred: The bramble tearihg at my coat was same one stating me; the hole of a tree, some one atehinu.oser the hedge ; every gust of wind hot e rr cites of fancied pursuers; and, half-mad I ',lessee, on, reeling Erma side to side of the road, till . I reached the gate which led to the, patlilhad ehosen ; and after getting hrorgh. I was obliged to stay here and rest. " • Rest What a word ! Rest !_that I v. as never to know again. I dared not- phoze n,y oreadful burden upon the but stoiAi icanii.g on the gate for a few. nthattes, 'before I turned and pressechon along the min gniss-grown path, for a few yards, stiiking then into the great fir-wood, where he i,ath sits slippery a ith the fallen needles, aad sloe Lete and there, where there was a oft d:t given 11,f all hare. 'l'rees every st; fit-trees, like the pillars a peat temple. and , tsc together, so that I had to my way carefully as I slowly clinil ed the rising ground, the darkness being times so intense that f had to hold one band stretched out fiord, to prevent striking af.!aii;.•A 5(4110 trunk. p still, hig4er and higher, a long, toil seme aalk, wit I: so heavy a load, my_ feet slip j.ing Irom under the .vs the ground sloped mote,—the pine -needles making the path at t ;tiles riri nt like glass ; . while once I tripped over a pine stump and fell heavily. But 1. w as now close to where 1 had laid my Spade, for I know tile ground well; and leaving my littrdet, when' it had fallen, I hur -1 ied t o Phut I had fixed upon,—an open :Tare '5 here a tent' trees had been thinned out. —and then, seizing my spade, I carefully set i t ed the needles into g heap, ready to spread over the gt ou ti again, and then- began to dig. "`At t lines they e csassucha lull of the storm, :Old all was so still, that the strokes of the spade (Aced back to me, and then directly after I Would stop, shivering, as the wind seemed to Fhoilt and wail amongst the, tree-tops, 'oaring and hissing, and making branches creak and groan as they groung. to gether. - It was. horrible; for the one Word Murder, Murder scented to ring In my oats as though ten thousand voices shouted it; but I toiled on, digging forfously, tlirowitig : out spadeful after spadeful of earth, , till I stood knee-deep in the black earth, making the' heap at my side higher and higher. How Ale wind thundered in those fir tops, and What a strange. ghastly gloom. there . seemed mound Now; it would grow pitay black, and the rain would come hissing and pat tering down ; them there would be a pale light steal through the . tall trunks of the trees, so that I could see for SOIIII3 little distance round. At one of these times I turned cold, the swetto stood in a chilly dew upon my forehead, my hair, was wet, and ,dropped the spade, for there, in the Stkange gloom, WaS something white staring horribly at me ;'and then I saw it apparently steal away, and melt intoAhe 'darkness amongst the'trees. " As soon as I could sufficiently recover myself, I seized the spade again, and dug on to 'deepen the rough hole.l vita 4 lioi*Ltag, when again my blood seemed to freeze as r saw the same white figure indistinctly Ai the dim dis tance, before; I made out that it was Hector, seated now, as I could tell, where I had left the body, and howling most dismally. "Believed of my fears, I hurled a piece of earth at the dog, when he disappeared once more; and after a few more strokes , of the spade, while trying the blade too strongly against a pine -root, the handle snapped in two. There was nothing clie forit ; lifo, tearing off, 1 ran back to fetch another, and `found, as I expected, that the dog , had, broken the shed window, and leaped out; upon once more reaching the pine-wood, I stopped short, for there came a dreadful cry from its depths, a horrible, long-drawn, echoing cry, which was repeated tVice before I knew it to be Hector, whom I found sitting by the body. ", Could I have reached hiM, I should have killed him with the spade 1 carried; but my approach drove him away, for he knew' me, and would not come near, though I tried hard to get him within my reach, calling him again and again,' :.• seems like a dream, a horrible night mare, .that night: the strange whisperings amon g st the trees, the voices, the Slionts,wails, shrieks and Cries, the rushing noises, the echoing sound of my spade, and the occasional hills when all was as still as death. But I deepened the hole, dragged in the body,covered it level with the surrounding soil, beat it down frantically, to hide, my crime from the sight of men, and then laboriously scattered about : the spare earth, before I again spread the pine needles over the spot. " Day was fandly beginning to break before I had finished, for from time to time I had to leave my task to drive away the dog, who came first on one side, and then upon the;Other, to watch me, so that I felt afraid of lest he should betray me by coming back as soon as I was gone, and tearing up the earth until he had laid bare my dreadful secret. ' And now that all was hidden from sight, I turned to go, when, shivering with fear, I remembered that I had not got the broken spade-handle, and felt that .it must be covered up in the grave, ready "to tell its own tale of- the ,murder, and who. was buried there, for-my name was branded on it in full. But; ftiund or not, I could not—l dared not attempt to dig it 'out then; but calling to the restless, watching dog, I strode threngh the wood, and back to the shed, where I hung up the spade, and :found to my great relief that the broken handle lay upon the floor where I had cast it down with the blade. " ' Hector had not followed me, but dared not go back, though there was not the slightest likelihood ofmy meeting any one; so, cleansing my hands, andtbanging my clothes, I threw myself dressed upon the bed, and tried to sleep. , • "'Tried, but tried in rain, as I lay there lis tening to the glad song of the birds, and saw the bright sunshine reflected into my room, for the morning had broken as beautiful as the night had been rough. But sleep was not for me; and at last I sprang up, and unable to resist the inclina- tion, walked into the fir-wood, when, upon nearing the spot, I turned cold once more with dread, on seeing _Hector tearing away at the earth. " But he ran as I approached ; and after carefully looking round, I once more leveled the ground, trampled it, and scraping up a capful of pine needles, sprinkled them over the place. 4 ' , Twice that day I returned to find my work to do over again; and the last time I brought my gun, and would have shot , the dog could I have got within reaCh; but as soon as I was in sight, he fled. This went on for weeks after : either Hector bad scratched up the soil, or it had settled down a little, so that I was always in dread lest the spot should be discovered. More than once, I determined to dig the body up, and bury it elsewhere, but I dared not; and beSides, I felt sure that the dog would, either be watching me, ()I - else would scent out the fresh place. I tried again and again to shoot him, but he never let me get within range, and the poisoned fragments ;of meat 1 laid about for him were never totiched. How he lived, I never knew, hut there he alwayS was, wander ing about the Wood. \ " • I gave out that my wife had gone to visit friends at a distance, and I contrived that a black-edged letter should be sent to me, and then I left the town for a few days, to come. back in deep mourning; and people were satis fied with my lame taleH-stich few as knew me, for mine was a solitary life In a wild part among the Surrey hills, and heaths and pine woods. That Hector seemed to lead a charmed life; and I at last came.to the conclusion that his visits to the spot in the pine -wood were now paid only by night, for I seldom used to see Lim ; and it seemed likely that getting to live after so wild a fashion, he followed the habits of his fellows, and slept the greater part of the day. But though I scarcely ever net with him, I constantly found proofs of his recent pre sence ; and °be night, when I went purposely to try and see him, as soon as I reached the gate I could hear his doleful howls, and I knew that lie must be seated won the grave.. The night Was perfectly still, and every howl came echo ing back from the sandstone — cliff Where the martins Wit; and us I looked through the long alloys where the moon was casting hun dreds :of shadov, s, there was,sOmething so solemn-looking in the scene, that I had not the' courage to proceed. !‘‘ 6 1 went on, though, at last, with a strange trembling in every limb ; but only to stop once more as a long echoinni t bowl came ringing through the tail fir-trunks, when, leaning my gun up against the one nearest to me, something seemed to draw me towards the old spot. But there was no fierce rage now against the dog,'for a feeling of pity for him was making its way to my heart. "' Could the dog have known that 1' Who can say. But as I crept slowly nearer and Dearer, till I could see him,there was no move ment; and at last I was close to him where he lay,—his muzzle costing upon his paws, save at times when he lifted fmnSelf a little, and gave out one of those long doleful howls,—and the 'next minute, sobbing like a weak child, I was "flown• upon my knees watering that poor, unsanctilied, but solemn grave with my tears. ltepentance :' If at that moment I could have changed places with the dead, I would have (lone it gladly ; and then it was that, for the first time, some thing like prayers for forgiveness were mut tered by my cracked white lips. • " don't knew how thatnight passed.; 'but . it seemed to Me in one great awful stillness. Mc. howled no more; and he was quite for gotten, till All at once 1 started, for there was a touch upon my hands : when, as I looked up, (lay was hi caking in' a . weird solemn way amongst the fir trees; and, afraid of the no longer, Hector was licking buy hands. " .Then I laid one hand upon his shaggy head, looking into his great ,honest, truthful -eyes; and as I Said to him, "Ike., old felloW, you won't betray nie !" he raised his muzzle, and gave one low whimpering howl, and it seemed to Die that we made friends,„ for with a hot longing look at the grave. I stood up and be gan to walk •awayiwith the great (log following close to my heels. ' " 4 We seemed to understand one another then, and to feel that we had a great secret to keep. :Ile did not sluinkfrom me, even When I took up my gun all w k. :apt rusted with the night-dew, but followed me home.. We had becOMe' friends .once iaMre, and, as it were, made a solemn compact over the grave; but, you seo, bas,'bohie the secret beher,thati L Bell want a master soon sir, for' you. are right,—your medicine is useless for , tay plaint. Time back rd gladly have killed him; but noW Ithink I should be easier it.l knew he would have • a good master. when •I n"' gene; and I know no one ' more ilk* to make him one than you , " ITO ceased speaking 4 '•and' halting'sevet4l other patients to visit, I, rose to take my leave, promising to call again. And,the next time I did so lie was dead; while Iftetor followed me home." • "But that scented . ' rather an easy way of taking leave of a man who 10 just confessed to tbe perpetration of a horrible murder," L 44 Well, yea, it does," said my friend; ," but hoW. would you have me end it?'! • • "Do you know, " 'said; laying doWn the pencil with which I had been taking volumi nous notes; "this 'sounds • not", only very prbbable, Wit uneornmOnly good Jr agulage 'for a min who was only a poor 'bn'.,ll' ~or genie keeper.'Now. 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The Company offer for SENT t the y lessee exclusively lding SAFES INSIDE TUE BUR tbe ke GLAR- , PROOF VAULTS, At rates varying (rem OM to 41)75 each per annum, ac cording tosize. Deposits of money received. on 'which Interest will be allowed per cent. on Call depoelte L payablety C.beek at eight, and 4 per cent. on Time do ' Peelle, payable on ten de, notice. Trovelero•Lottore of Credit turniobed, available in all parts of X aiope. This Company is also authorized to act as Executors, Administrators and Guardians, to receive and execute Trusts of every description from die Courts, corpora tions or individual/. ROBERT PATTEMON, Secretary and Treseurer ncr24-w tit tan 6 T HE PHILADELPHIA TRUST, SAFE DEPOSIT INSURANCE COMPANY, Chartered by the Legiebittire of Penney'. vanla, April, 1869. Capital, - - Mr)oo,000 Established for the Execution, of Trusts, Executornhips, Etc.; the Safe Keeping of Valuables. and the Renting of • Small Safes in its Burglar-Proof Vault* In the Granite Fire. Proof Building of the Philadelphia National Bank,Chestnut Street. This Institution will be opened for the trans action of business on MONDAY, December 27, when the Company will be in readiness to receive SPECIAL DEPOSITS for the SAFE Ritmum of GOVERNMENT BONDS and other SECURITIES, SILVER and GOLD PLATE, JEW ELRY, and other portable VALUABLES, under special guaranty, at rates similar to those charged by other SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANIES in the principal cities of the United States, and to .BENT SMALL SAFES inside its BUR GLAR-PROOF Vaults at rates varying from 615 to 576 per year, according to size and location. These Vaults are well lighted and ventilated, of enormous strength, and no effort or expense has been spared in their construction to rem; der them ABSOLUTELY BURGLAR-PROOF. 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Nothing has been omitted to provide for the convenience and most perfect attainable security of Depositors and Renters, and afford absolute SAFETY against FIRE, Tamer, BURGLARY and Acct bßßT ; the means for which as adopted by the Company are not, it is believed, excelled in the country. • fa-- All fiduciary obligations, such ES Tnists,Guardianships, lixecutorships, et cetera. will be undertaken and faithfully discharged. ra-- Money received on deposit at interest, subject to withdrawal at the pleasure of de positors. • • Err Coupons, Interest and other Income will be collected when desired, and remitted to the owner for a small commission. • lU-• Suitable accommodations are provided for the convenience of ladies. Circulars, giving full details, forwarded on application. Office flours : 9 o'clock A. 31. to 4 o'clock P. M DIRECTORS: THOMAS ROBINS LEWIS R. ASHHURST, J. LIVINGSTON ER.RINGER, R. P MCCULLAGH, • EDWIN M. LEWIS, JAMES L. CLAGHORN, BENJAMIN'B. COMEGYS, AUGUSTUS HEATON, F. RATCHFORD STARR, • DANIEL HADDOCK, Ja., EDWARD Y. TOWNSEND, JOMN D. TAYLOR,. HON. W.M. A. PORTER. OFFICERS: president, LEWIS R. ASHHURST. , Vice-President, J.' LIVINGSTON ERRINGER.• Secretary and Treasurer, ROBERT P. MoOULLAGH. Solicitor, ,RICHARD L. ASHHURST. den•imi GROCERIES, LIQUORS; act,. NEW 11,,5S SHAD AND SPICED Salmon, Torignee and Hounds, in prime ordor, just received and for sale at COUSTY•S Bust End Grocery No. 118 South !Second street, below Chestnut street. 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Tata, M 9 South Broad ot; and 1140 Watilaingten avenue. 0013)31- B. maser; DINES .111143 H. SHRAPP. THE Ci.N.DERSIONED INVITE tie ATTEN. nt° their stock of _ • 13pring Mountain,Lehigh and Locust Mountalq Vold, which, with the oreparation given by us, we think oat. not be excelled by any other Coal. Office, Franklin institute Building, No. in B. Seventh street. . DINES di BkilatlFF,. ' Arch street 'wharf. Schtivildll. - 100 ICE.—eo ,CASKS .ICE NOW:LAND big from Ptermer PromethouP, from Chario.ton, C., aml for Halo by COCIIIIAN, RUHULL it CO. 111 Vileatsttt , street. Yl'7T N. D. BROWNE. Preeldent FINANCIAL. '"FIRST MORTGAGE Oftiti AR agile GOLD Bolos , f , ' •Or "THE Fridericksbarg and Gordongillie Railroad Co., of Virginia. Principal and interest" Payable in acid. , . These Bonds are eel:mired bra First and Only Mortgage on the entire real estate, road, pereocal pct f arty Iran- Oleo and rolling stock of the_Votripany, giv en to the Fanners Loan and Trust. ( Company o New York, The road le 02 miles in length, connecting Fredericks ,burg with Charlottesville by way of Orange Court House, paesing through §ion of the Shenandoah Valley, the local trate dr Which alone , supp o rt the rdeg,while, as part or the great through lines to the Southwest and West, the aunty and security of the Oompany Fonda aro placed beyond question and doubt. Wo offer &limited amount of these Bonds at 92% and interest front November 1, to currency - . Pamphlet., maps and information furnished on appli cation to TANNER dr.. CO., No. 49 WALL Street, New 'York. SAMUEL WORK, No. 215 S. TPIIRD Street, Phi ladel de9 tfl ..20.5..•.::...A5p.,. : ,.:.,188.1'8 Bought, Sold and Exchanged on most liberal terms. GOLD Bought and. Sold at Market Rate& COUPONS CASHED. PACIFIC! RAILROAD BONDS Bought and Solid. S Fr OP C S Sought and Sold on Commission Only, COLLECTIONS made on all Amenable Paints. '' . .X)t,... - .t . Nin.:: . .::::':.R(l 40 South Third St., nal psuuuDrApills. A RELIABLE HOME INYMMENT THE FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS OF TIM Wilmington and Reading Railroad, ctra it )41-,.;fi AT SEVEN PER CENT. IN CURRENCY, Payable April and October, free of Mate and Plaited States Taxes. This roadr n through a tidal,' populated and rich agricultural and manufacturing district. - For the present we are offering a limited amount of the above bonds at • 85 Cents and Interest. The connection of this road with the Peru:outran and Beading EaMeads insures it a large anon remunerative trade. We recommend the bonds" as the cheapest first clans investment In the market. GYM. PAINTER dr, CO., Bankers and Dealers ha Governmental, No. 36 S. THIRD STREET, hatli PHILADELPIFILII6 REMOVAL. IWIDOLPIII ) oAkkos RAVE REMOVED TO N0.,-121 S. THIRD STREET, Apposite Girard Bank. BANKING HOUSE iIYCooNEaCp. 112 andll4 So. THIRD ST. PIIILAD'A. DEALERS IN ALL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES We will receive applications for Policies of Life Insurance In the new National Life In surance Company of the United States. Full information given at our office. CORSETS., Wholesale and Retail Corset Warehouse REMOVED 819 ARCH STREET. BARATET. CORSETS, TOURNIIRES, PANJEAS. 112 8, Eleventh, tit, DENT' sTit, . a ft 30 YET:a' ACTlVlT7Pjadita.f. Dr. E.114E, No. 219 Tine street; below Third, ... 4134141 " : imerte the handeomeet Teeth in the eity,et prices to snit all: Teeth Plugged, Teeth Repaired, Exchanged. or Remodeed to suit. Poe and Ether. No pain In ex. traction. 011loq noure.B to b se2s-eandBn BROWN'S (From lifetoricid. Skeletal of do Bohm of` George 11. By Bin, OUptunt. ,Dost9n, Lfttell k (.16.] LAST DAVIS or. LAI)V wosivoy NON• TAGV. Thus we arrive at the lest period of Lady Mary's life. We have said that she. teed was an impassioned woman. NO more futile parallel-was ever made than that which,' calls Ler the English Sevigni. The 'two natiliti are as distinct as evertwo natures were. It is possible that the character of Mutable Sevigne may have affected and moulded the ideal of .her nation, as it .certainly Teaches in. her its fullest impersonation. The highest eypei efeexe cellence to the French Mind Is the vvopian has no passion in her life but that of Mother hood, who lives but for her childiereatel Who ia made by them, and by the race in general, into a tender idol, worried; no , doubt, eind , Fvexed and wounded in the ordinary course of. exist ence, but always theoretically worshipped. Madame de Sevigne is the highest type of thli saintly creature ; more tender, more constant; inoreimpassioned; than any lover, giving all, asking nothing except that little recompense of love which she well knows is but a shadow of her own; content to give. up all individual life, to regard the events of her existence only as so many means of interesting or amusing her absent child, living upon that child's recollec tion, longing for her presence, turning every scene around her into a sheltie for the object of her soft idolatry. Such is the French woman. Iler own many gifts, the tender brilliancy of her genius, her wit ; her lively apprehension, are all handmaids to the love which is the one conscious principle of her being. They enable her to woo, with many a gentle art, the per haps distracted attention of the absent; they furnish her with all those sweet' wiles of af fectiou, devicees sometimes pathetic, always beautiful, to call back by moments the heart which once was her own, but, now has gone froin her to the stronger claims of husband and children. One weeps and one smiles over the tender record. Never was purer passion nor self : abandonment more complete. Lady Mary Wortley is of an entirely different character. Love and longing for the absent may be, and no doubtare gnawing at her heart also ; but her philosophy is to make herself lute pendent of these, to occupy herself, to fill the remnant of her life with interests Which may break the force of that painful -longing. In stead of concentrating her heart and thoughts, upon the chance of a momentary meeting now and then, which may cheat with a semblance of reunion only to pierce the sufferer with new pangs of parting, she makes up her,mind with a stern but not ignoble philosophy tat all such sweet possibilities are over. She takes her self away to bide her solitude, to withdraw the shadow of her deserted life from that of her child. She sets forth in her letters all her surroundings, all her occupations, not - by way Of amueing her correspondent alone, but by way of showing that her own life - is yet worth living, and her individuality unimpaired. It is possible that in this steady and unfaltering purpose there may be almost a higher principle of affection than that which Moves the tender outpourings of the other mother's heart; but it is the tenderness of a stoic, content to take what is possible, and to resign what cannot be . Loped for, and not the effusion of love which dies for a response. Madame de Se 'Ogee, but for the soft dignity Which was inalienable from her as her child's mother, would have been a servant for her love. Lady Mary could not but live her own life, and preserve her independence and personality. In her Italian villa, queen of the alien hamlet, legislator for her neighbor cottages, the English lady took her forlorn yet individual place; till ing her days with a thousand occupations, dazzling the strange little world about her with brilliant talk, seeking forgetfulness in books, living and growing old in her own . way with a certain proud reasonableness and philosophy ; deluding herself with no dreams, forbidding her heart to brood over the past, and making a heroic and partially successful .attempt to be iiniticlent unto herself. We follow her brave spirit through the haze of y,ears with a certain wondering sympathy, a surprised respect. " Keep my letters," said Lady Mary, in the hey-day oilier life; " they will be as good . as 3ladaine de Sevignees forty years hence." But no sacredness of time and no warmth of appre ciation could ever make the two works Neal. They spring from an altogether different in s spiratidn, and reveal a totally diverse soul. The period of exile imposed upon herself by this singular woman was almost a third part of her whole life. She was twenty-two years in Italy, not always resident in the same place, though Veniceewas her chief abode; and the little watering-place of Louvere seems to I have been her favorite refuge from the sum mer heats* during which time her correspond ence with iter husband and daughter was un interrupted except by the vicissitudes of the post, and the contrariety of ambassadors and consuls. Even then in her waning years she was not an inoffensive personage; but always a woman of mut, making enemies as well as friends. These letters undergo a gradual change ,as her life changes. From tiondon she had written ,to her sister as one woman of the world, active and full of life, might be expected to write to another. In her Italian correspondence her voice grows sober, her style composed. It is the wisdom of years, not lofty, but yet full of sense and reason, and unexageerated reality. She gives her opinion with the fullness of detail 'and calm of expe rience which belong to her age, but she, does not insist on her opinion bemg received. She consents to the different views of her daughter with &quiet tolerance. :eYou see I was not mistaken in supposirie. we-should have dis putes concerning •your. daughters, if we were together, since we can differ even at this dis tance," she writes, apparently after receiving her daughter's reply, to two or three long and careful letteraee upon education. "The sort of learning;" she adds, "that'l re counnended is not so expensive; either of time.. or money, as dancing, and, in my opinion, likely to be of much more use to Lady —, if her memory and apprehension are what you represented them to me. However, every one has a right to educate their children their own way, and I shall speak no more on that sub , ject." Thus she withdraws from every appear ance of controversy. Her life had been marked by broils enough, but here it is evident she put force on herself, and would give no excuse for estrangement. And as even this subject, which she felt herself to be an authority on, was dangerous ground, the exile, in her won derful self-control, turns from it without a. word of reproach, and goes back to the subject of her vineyards and gardens, her villages and her books. She tells her daughter bow she has sat up all night over e Clarissa Harlowe," and wept over it ; but adds the most sagacious criticisms upon the defects of the school of fiction to which it belongs, and the book's individual weak nesses.. " I fancy you are now saying, 'tis a sad thing to grow old," she says at the end of along letter-on literary subjects; • with a , half apology, which is 'wonderfully pathetic. " What does mypoor mamma mean by troubling me with criticisme. on books which nobody but herself has ever read? You must allow some thing to my solitude. I have a pleasure in writing to my dear child, and not many sub jects to write upon." • Thus she lives her soli tary life and takes what forlorn pleasure she can out! of it. "I find by experience more . sincere pleasures .with my books and garden than all the flutter of a court could give me," she says. But the picture has taken a sober coloring; an air of loneliness e breathes through it. Not the restless palpitating lonelinese*of the young Lady Mary, years before, on the Illitchinbroke terrace, when all the brilliant world lay within reach, yet the Tobin-redbreast, with edod-humor and hu manity," alone bore her company; but a calm solitude, undisturbed by anticipation, and without hope. Beseintion steady and gentle, v ahnost stern in its constancy, inspires the strange record. NeveiTo murmur at the in evitable, to be no burden, no shadow upon THE ILULT EVENING BULLEtiII"PIILLATALPIIIA; ViIUBSDAY, DEOWER 2 3 1 . 1g 69 . - VitIPLE SHEET, any one, tOlnake:,the beat, of bet life; and get • stime good out of/ its moit'iMprinnising no rid l tiods ; to be herself, let everything change around her. Such is the quiet determination that, underlies, all her, pretty, descriptions, all accounts. places and 00414 her criti cfsin§ and her argumentS, She is minfelancholy suppliant, bidding for pity, striving after a reluctant ; but a composed observer, reti cent and unexacting- upon others, because she has wisely; preserved a lai Itier own. %That life is not one that could have had many charms for a less powerful or self-sustalning spirit; but there is in:it an '4ll4ltloo,lv(ll i gnity of self-command, and that mingled submission to, and resistance of,,the fetid , :coil of - eircUm-,, stances which display the highest of humanity. Lady Mary submitted, and made ,the best of ; the,,. changes! which ahn.could not help, but at the same time she made preps'td . herself of her OWn abounding vital force, of her faculty of amusement, even , of the eccentrici- , ties other Character, to save herself from'being crushed by them. In doing so, she trans gressed many of the chief articles in the code of respectability, Which ordains that a woman, when lonely and abandoned, 'shall "make up her mind to it, and die , or, sink into apathy without 8110111 m any'frivolons inclinations to wards a life which the world has pronounced over for her. The woman' whose story we have so far traced was not one who could die, or who could consent to be crushed into inanity. She lied from that life-in-death. Tt , was not pos sible to her to do • less than live so long as existence lasted ; and we believe it would be better for humanity, better for our common chances of happiness, if the wounded, the lonely and the deserted shared her instinctive wisdom, and asserted their forlorn right to such existence as suited their constitutions, instead of sinking into the tedium of forced uniformity, as so many shipwrecked people do. It is curious to turn from the subdaed yet life-like colors of this picture to the daub marked with the , same name on the walla of Horace Walpole's endless gallery. She was old when he met her at Florence, and he was not the sort of young man whom an ancient beauty would inspire with any respectful or sympathetic ; feeling. Although she found him "wonderfully civil," Lady Mary was an old hag to the lively youth, as old women of every description often are in the eyes of the younger generation. "Her dress, her avarice, and her impudence • must amaze any one that never heard her name,"says ra Hoce. "She wears a foul mob that oes not cover her greasy black locks, that hang down never combed nor curled; an old mazarine blue wrapper that gapes open and discovers a canvass petticoat; the face swelled violently on one-side, partly covered with a plaster, and partly with white paint, which for cheapness she has bought so coarse that you would not use it to wash a chimney. In three words I will give you her picture as we drew it in the surto Virgilfano: : lasso= vateui aspicies: I give you my honor we did not choose it." This description chimes in' badly with the idea conveyed by her letters; but yet, alas, the evidence of tradition would seem to prove, as might be made plain by various "unsavory and unquotable anecdotes, that Lady - Mary was not distinguished by that .scrupulous regard to • cleanliness of person, which is one of the chief articles nowadays in the social code: It was not of the first Im portance then, and we .. fear there is nothing to be said on this subject for the old roman of fashion. When the Prince of Wales made his wife observe how leconalligly Lady Mary was dreseed f the gave her the only • tribute which in this particul t ar.she ever seems to have received. Even in her earliest rears she herself expressed boldly her indifference and almost contempt for dress-; - and though she warms to a certain degree of womanly enthusiasm about the decorations of the ha- . rem, her admiration was stimulated by many extraneous causes. Possibly the young peo ple in the Florentine palaCes, when they gazed at the old Englishwoman, with her careless garb and her strange reputation, laughed with Horace Walpole; a circumstance with which we, whose aim is to draw the, picture 'of her mind and heart from .materists which she alone could furnish, have but a secondary con cern. But at the same time the contrast be tween the sketch made from without and the picture which grows under her own fingers within is worth notice. No doubt there are other instances, as well as that of Lady Mary, in which the old-fashioned figure, worn with age, and subject to all the quips and cranks of time, yet clinging with what seems an un natural frivolity to the • amusements of the world, at which the young people laugh, would be found, if the spectator looked deeper, to be bat balancing itself by these contemptible means on the frail plank that bridges over those abysses ofself-annihilation and nonentity which are worse than death. We will give a last sketch of this indomitable old woman in her own words, as addressed to the friends of her old age, Sir James and Lady Frances Stewart,to whom,when nearly seventy, the addresses letters as full of playful wit and cordial friendship as if her faculties had been at their freshest, and in whose behalf she em ploys what interest she has with her son-in law, Lord Bute, then in full favor :with the young King George III.: '• , 4 , Solitude begets whimsies ; at my time of life one usually falls into. those that are mos n choly, though 1 endeavor to keep up a certain sprightly folly that (I thank God) I was born with. • • • My chief study all my life has been to. lighten misfortunei and multiply plea sures as far as human nature can. • • • You know I am enthusiastic in my friendships. I also bear from all handa of my daughter's prosperity; you, madam, who are a mother, may judge of my pleasure in her happiness, though I have no taste for that sort of felicity.. I could never endure with patience the austeri ties of a court life. I was saying every day from my heart (while I was con demned' to it), The things that I would do, these I do not; and the things I would not do, these '•do I daily; and I had rather be a sister of St. Clara than lady of the bedchamber to any lady in Europe. It is not age and disappointment that have given me 'these sentiments; you may see theta in a copy of verses sent from Constantinople in my early youth to, my uncle Fielding, and by his well intended indiscretion shown about, copies taken, and at last miserably printed. I own myself such a rake I prefer liberty to, chains of diamonds, and ;when -I hold ,my peace dike" King David) it Is pain and grief to me." 31r. Wortley died in 1761, leaving behind bim an enormous fortune. 'Whether the family business connected .with this brought Lady Mary to England, or whether she was drawn home, by the instinct of all dying creatures, we, are not informed. It is evident,however,that her return had been spoken of for some timepre viously. "I have outlived the greatest part of my acquaintance," she ' writes in the year 1760; "and, to Say the truth, a return to crowd-and bustle after my long retirement would be dis agreeable to me., Yet if I could be of use, either to your father or your family, I would venture the shortening of the insignificant days of your affectionate mother." Still later she . svritea to Sir James Stewart, "I confess that . though I am (it may be) beyond the strict, bounds of reason pleased - with my Lord - Dutes and my daughter's prosperity, I am doubtful whether will attempt to be a spectator of it. I have so.many years indulged toy natural inclina tions to solitude and reading, I am unwilling to return to crowds and bristle, which would be unavoidable in London." But her hus band's death seems to have decided the step which she thus regarded, and in the beginning of 1762 she had reached her native country. - Walpole once more conies in at this point with the only description we have of the an• dent beauty, now seventy-two, and in very broken health. He had sent • her a copy of his book, " Royal and Noble Authors." Notwithstanding his Ow eruptuous comments on her, he had been " Wonderfully civil,"' ' herself tells us us Florence," and hastened to Pay his . tespficare o het arrival in London, but-yet be cannot midst • the temptation Of 'making another ,ill-natured'. sk?telx.of her: - • 4 ,wetit la t night to her," ,wotes Herate." gito yoU my honor',mid - vitt who knOwlierivill believe 'me without "it,•the lowinif is a faithful description: I found her in a little - Miserable beitichamber of a ready-fur nished botufe, with two tallow , candles and a bureatt covered with< pots and pans. On her head,: in ` full Of all accounts, she had an `old^ black-laced lioodt 'whipped entirely' round' an as to conceal all hair, or want of hair no ,handkerchief, but Instead of it a kind of horseman's ridimz-coat l , calling itself a pet-en-Cadr, made of a dark green brocade, with colored . and silver flowers, and lined with furs ;,bodice laced'; a full dimity petticoat sprigged; velvet , mulletees on her arms ; grey stockings and slippers. - Her face less changed in twenty years than I could have imagined. I told 'her so, and abe was 'not so tolerable twenty years ago that she should have taken it for flattery ; but she did, and literally. gave me a box on the ear. She is very lively, all her senses perfect, her language as imperfect , as ever, her avarice greater. She entertained me at first with nothing but the cheapness of the provisiOns of Hclvoet. With nothing but an Italian,'n 'French, and a Prussian, all men=' servants, and something she calls an old secre tary, but whose age, till he appears, will be doubtful, she Las trave led' everywhere.. She receives all the world who go to homage her as nneen4nother, and crams them into this kennel." I Yet Horace ,was one of the, first to visit her and the most ready to flatter, though he could not deny blmself even here the monstrous in sinuations about the old secretary of a woman of:,seventy-two ! dislike evidently rendering bit blind. "Those who could remember her arrival," writes Lady Louisa Stuart, on the other hand, " spoke with delight of the clear ness, vivacity and raciness of her conversa tion, and the truthful vigor which seemed to animate her mind. She did not appear dis pleased at the general curiosity to see her, nor void of curiosity herself concerning the new things and people that her native coun try presented to her view after so low, an absence. ' • 'I am most handsomely lodged,' she said ; 'II have two very decent closets and a cup and on each. floor.' This' served to laugh but could not be a pleasant exchange for the Italian palazzo." She came with her old prepossessions and enmities to a new world, in which her daughter had taken a new place of her own, and into which a new' generation hid grown up. But for that same daughter—no longer her " little damsel in white," the girl whose life had been,, as she says, her passion, but Lord Bute's wife, and mother of nine or ten children, each one of whom, doubtless, was, of much more conse quence to her than her mother—=Lady -Mary must , .- have felt ' herself more utterly a stranger,than among the pal- . aces of Venice or te rural byways of Louvere. She brought her death with her to' her native country in the most terrible shape that death can come. 'A secret cancer, like the fabled fox that gnawed the Spartan's vitals, had been un dermining her health for some time, and in ten months after her return to England, Lad? Mary. died. Thus the tragedy ended like all tragedies, the last act ha it being the least tragic, the least sorrowful of all. This )voman of the world, too, bad her speechless weight upon her, her. burden patiently borne. She carried it hero ically, without a word, trying ever with supreme valor to conceal It from herself, and re fuse to herself the sad luxury of brood 'ing over it. It is with . a sigh of relief that we turn from this as from so infuty other gmes. The laboring man had gone out to his toil and labor till the evening : awl now the soft night, wrapping all griefs in its darkness and stillness, weeping all nameless agonies with its mild dews, had come. SHIPPERS' GUIDE. VOR BOSTON.-STEAMSHIP LINE ".1: DIRECT. BALLING FROM EACH PORT EVERY Wednesday and. Saturday. FROM PINE STREET WHARF, PHILADELPHIA, - AND LONG WHARF, BOSTON. Piton' PHILADELPHIA FROM BOSTON. . _ ARIES, Wednesday , ;Dee . I SAXON, Wedneaday,Dee. I ROMAN, Saturday, ' 4 NORMAN, Saturday," 4 SAXON,Wedneaday, " 8 ARIES, Wednesday, " 8 NORMAN, Sararday, " 11 ROMAN, Saturday " II ARIES. Wednesday " 15 SAXON Wednesday," l5 ROMAN, Saturday, " NORMAN t Saturday," 18 SAXON, Wednesday " 221 ARIS, Wednesday, 22 NORMAN, SaturdaY,"FOMAN,__Baturder. " 25 .ARIES, ednesday, " 291SAXON,Wedneaday , " 22 These Steamehipe sail punctually. Freight received every day. Freight forwarded to all potnte in New England. For Freight or Pasaage (ajaperlor accommodation') apply to REDMX VINSOR & DO., 538 South Delaware avenue. jOHILADELPIELLA., RICHMOND AND NORFOLK STEAMSHIP LINE. THROUGH FREIGHT AIR LINE TO THE SOUTH AND WEST. EVERY SATURPAYO4,Ifoon, from FIRST WHARF tki - x)y kalif - - THBOUGH BATES to all points in North and . Sonth Carolina via Seaboard Air-Line Railroad, connecting: at Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee and the West via Virginia and Tennessee Air-Line' and Rich mond and Danville Railroad. Freight HANDLED BUT ONCEAMitalten at L °WEB BATES THAN ANY OTHER LINE. The regularity, safety and cheapness of this route commend it to the public as the most desirable medium for carrying every description of freight. No charge for commission. drayage, or any expense for transfer. Steamships insure at lowest rates. Freight received DA.LLY. WILLIAM P. CLYDE & CO. No. 12 South Wharves and Pier No. 1 North W W, PORTER, Agent atltichmond and City Point. - T. P. CROWELL di CO., Agents at Norfolk jOHILADVILPHIA AND SOUTHEEI MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY'S REGULAR LINES FROM QUEEN STREET WHARF. The YAZOO will sail for NEW ORLEANS, via Havana, on Saturday. Jan. let, at 8 A. M. The J_ A. UNIAT will sail from NEW ORLEANS, via BA YANA. on Saturday, Jan. let. _ The WYOMING will sail for SAVANNAH on Saturday, Dec. 25. at 8 o'clock A.M. The TONAWANDA will sail from SAVANNAH on Saturday, Dee. 25. - The PIONEER will sail for WILMINGTON I N.O.,on Saturday, Dec. 25,‘ at BA. M. Through bilbeof lading signed, and passage tickets soldlo all points South and West. BILLS of LADING SIGNED at QUEEN BT. WHARF. For freigkt or_passage, apply to wnwAii L. JAMES, General Agent, 1.10 South Third street.. 'MEW EXPRESS LINE TO ALEXAN -1.1 dria, Georgetown and Washington, D. C., via Chas srci andeyeake Delaware Canal, with connections at Alex m the moat direct route for Lynchbar et Bris tol, Knoxville, Nashville, Dalton and tho Southwest, Steamers leave regularly from the Snit wharf above Hazlet street,every Saturday at noon. Freight received daily. WM. P. CLYDE & CO., No. 12 South Wharves and Pier I North Wharves. HYDE & TYLER, &gents at Georgetown. M. ELDRIDGE & CO., Agents at Alexandria. Va NOTICE -FOR NEW YORK, ItIA. --- tiETI- aware and Raritan Canal—Rwiftsure Transports. tion Oompapy—Despatch and Bwittsure Lines. The business by - these Lines will be resumed on and after the Bth of March. For Freight, which will be taken on accommodating terms, apply to WM. M. BAIRD a 00..132 Routh Wharves. LLELAWARE AND CHESAPEAKE Steam Tow-Boat Company.—Bargee towed between elpbia, Baltimore, Havre de Grace, Delaware City and intermediate points. WM. P. CLYDE & CO „Agents; Capt. JOHN LAUGH LIN, Sup't Office, 12 South - Wharves, Philadelphia. I\TOTICE,-=-FOR NEW YORK, VIA DEL AWARB AND RARITAN CA.NAL. SWIFTER:FRE TRANSPORTATION COMPANY. DESPATCH AND SW] FTSURE LINES. The business of these lines will be resumed on and after the 18th of March. For freight, which will be taken o lic"nunedsMtlß tenni, &Mar to WM.. BAIRD& CO., N 0.1.13 South Wharves. CAUTION NOTICE. -ALL PERSONS ARE HERE• ,BY cautioned against trusting any of the crew of the British bark B. Rogers. Crosby, master,. from Bris tol, England, as no debts of their contracting will be .paid by either Captain or Consignees. PETER WRIOLIT & 50N5,11.5 Walnut street. delta' NOTICE. -ALL PERSONS ARE 1.1 hereby cautioned against trusting any of the crew of the Norwegian ship Refondo, Blegen master, from Bristol, England, as no debta of their contractitwill be paid by either-Captain or Consignees. PETEB WBIGUT & EONS, De NValnut street. , deUtf CAUTIO PERSONS..ARE hereby cautioned against harboring or, trusting any of the crew of the British brig" Estelle," Dolan master, from Rotterdam, ae no debts of their contract ing will he paid by. Captain or'Consignees. WORKMAN & CO.. Consignees. deli: tt 'KT 0 T.-I C ' PERSONS ARE hereby_ cautioned against trusting, any of the craw of the , G. Bark /Luton, 'Fricke, piaster, frora New York, as no debts of their contracting will be paid bY Pinter Captain or Consignees. PETER, WBIGIIT SONS. 115 Walnut street: - . doff tf ItEMOVAI. Q.T. BEALE, M. D., & SON, DENTISTS) . Imre removea to 1116 Girard street. 0022 Strt" '~~i~trtt►~vbB. 03,1PEci.A.L. mogriene THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH ,AMERICA:, OF PHILADELPHIA, (MARINE ). INICOUPORATED 1794. Capital, = $500,000 00 itimets July 10,1869, $2;593,922 , 10 This Company is now Preparml, to haute CertifiCates of Insurance, payable la London, at the CountituVliiinise of nesorli. Brown, Shipley& CO. CHARLES PLATT. • Vice-President 0c29-t1 deal rig MffMtTTJALts. FRANKLIN FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY Office- 2 415 and 437 Oheatant Street, Assets on January 1,1869, 02,077,37213. Copt to), ---...5400,000 OS Accrued Surplia.—...-..............„ ....... MfBSTTLED CLAIM. -- ' Iffoollll TOE MOO eAngin. eBBO4OO. Losses Paid Since 1.829 Over i 55,4500, .900. Perpetual and Temporary . Policies on Liberal Terms The Company also issues Policies upon the Bents of all kinds of buildings, Ground Bents and BLILBOTOS B. lAlfred Fitter, Thomas /Sparks, Wm. 8. Grant Thomas 8. Ellis, atuaavrts S. Benson, _I 1 BAKER. President. EB, Wee President. Secretary. .. Assistant Becrelari_. feu tdedi Alfred Q. Baker, Barnriel Grant, Geo. W. Richards, Isaac Lea, Geo. Bales, ALFRED GEO. FAL JAB. W. fficALLISTER, THEODORE M. B.EGBR nELAWARE MUTUAL SAFETY INSI7- 1-• BANCE COMPANY, incorporated by the Legtsla• 'attire of Fenusylrania, 1b35. Omce, S. E. corner of THIRD and WALNUT streets, Philsdelphia. MARINE INSURANCES On Vessels, Cargo and Freight to all parts of the world. INLAND INSURANCES On goods by river, canal. lake and land carriage to all parts of the Union. • FIRE INSURANCES On Merchandise generally ; on Stores, Dwellings, Houses, &c. ASSETS OF THE COMPANY November 1. ISes. • e 200,000 United States live Per Cent. Loan, ten-forties *716,000 00 100.000 United States Six Per Cent. Loan (lawful money) 137,750 00 50,000 United Staies Six Per Cent. Loan, ISdI - 200,000 State of Pennsylvania Six Per Cent. L0an......... -.. 213,950 00 200,000 CRT Philadelphia Six Per Cent Loan (exempt from tax)... 200,9 9 -5 00 . . 100,000 State (fif New Jersey Six Per Cent. Loan---* -. ...... . 102,000 00 27.),000 Pennsylvania Rd lrottd First ldortgage Six Per Cent. Bonds... 19,450 00 25,000 Pennsylvania Railroad Secon Mortgage Six Per Cent. Bonds... 23,625 00 ' 25,000 Western Pennsyls ania Railroad. Mortgage Six Per Cent Bonds (Pennsylvania Railroad guar . ant oe) 30,000 State of Tennessee ' Five Per ' Cent. Loan 15,000 00 7,000 State of Tennessee Six Per Con: Loan 12,500 Pennsylvania Railroad Com. r,any, 250 shares stock, 14,000 00 s,ooo.North Pennsylvania Railroad Company, lOU shares stock 3,900 00 10,000 Philadelphia end Southern Mail Stenmship Company, S 0 shares stock.. 7,500 00 246,900 Loans on Bond and Mortgage. ' first liens on City Properties...... 246,900 00 e 1,231,400 Par. Cost, $1.21Ma5.3.t9 27 rket value, 81,255,"i000 . • Real Estate... ......... 33,000 00 Bills Receivable for Insurance made.. 323,730 75 Balances due at Agencies-Pre miums on Marine Policies, Ac- ' crued Interest and other debts • this the Company...- 65,09765,09793 Stock, Scrip, &c.. of sundry Cor porations, e 4,706. Estimated value . 2,740 20 Cash in Bank sli ,ItJl fl 3 Cash in -Draw er 972 26 169,291 14 DIRECTORS. Thomas C. Hand, Samuel E. Stokes, John C. Davie, . .. William G. Boniton, Edmund E. Bonder, Edward Darlington, Theophilua Paulding, H. Jones Brooke, James Traquair, Edward Lafonrcade, Henry Sloan, • Jacob Riegel, ' Henry C. Dallett,lr., Jacob P. Jones, Janes C. Hand, James B. M 'Farland, William C. Ludwig, Joshua P. Eyre Joseph IL Seal, Spencer kt 'llvain, Hugh Craig, J. B. Semple, Pittsburg, John D. Taylor, . A. B. Berger, George W. Bernadou, D. T. Morgan, William C. Houston, THOMAS C. HAND, President. JOHN C. DAVIS, Vice President HENRY LYLBDRN, Secretary. HENRY BALL,Assistant Secretary ▪ , • ar :411 4 ' • • COMPANY OP PHILADELPHIA. This Company takes risks_at the lowest rates eonaistant with safety, and confines its business exolusivel/ to FINN INBUBANON IN PHIA. THS CITY OF rpnaum- OIMEE—No.723 Arch street, gourth National Btu* Building. DIRECTORS. _ Thotnas Martin, Henri W. Brennei, John Hirst, Albertus King, Wm. A. Bolin henry BUMM, James ld 011g1411 James Wood; William Glenn, John Slaallcross, James Jenner J-Reqr, Askin, Alexander T.'Dickson. Hugh mulligan, Albert C. Roberts Phaito Eitspatriok, James p, Dillon. CONRAD B. ANDRESS, President. W. A. Rotut. Treas. Wm. H. ireame. Beef. TREbOUNTYFIRE INSURANCE COM. PAHL—Office, No.llo South Fourth street, below Chestnut. • "The Fire Inentrance Company of the Ck+unty of Phila delphia," Incorporated by the Legislature of Pennsylva nia in ups, for indemnity against lose or damage P 7 are, excluaively. • CHARTSR PERPETUAL. This old and reliable institution, with ample capital and contingent fund carefully itareeted, continues to in sure buildings, furniture, merchandise, 803., either per manently or fors li mited time, agalnet lows or damaa ggee by lire, at the lowest rates remittent with the absolute safety ofita cutdomers. • Losses adjusted and paid with all possible despatch. BUROTORS: Ohms. J. Rutter, Andrew H. Millet, henry Budd, Jameff N. Stone, Jon Born, Edwin L. Rashid, Joseph Moore, Robert V. Massey, Jr. Mark Devine. laecke ' MARL S J. SUTTER, President. • HENRY BUDD. Vice President. BENJAMIN F. BORCHERT. Secretary and Treasurer. "JEFFERSON FIRE INSURANCE COM ej MANY of Philadelphia.—Office, No. It North Fifth street, near Market street, Incorporated by the Legislature of Pennsylvania. Charter DerPetnal. Capital and Assets. $166,00u. Make insurance against Less or damage by Fire on Public or Private Buildings. Furniture, btooks, Goods and Mer chandise, on favorable terms. - OBS DIANOT • Wra. McDaniel, 'Edward P. Moyer Israel Peterson, Frederick Ladner John Belaterlis Adam J. Olean, Henry Troennier, Henry Delany, Jacob Bchandesn, John Elliott,_ Frederick Doll, - 'Christian D. Frick, Samuel Nines, George E. Sort, William l),,Gardner. • -WILLIAM lit-BANlBloPresident. IBRABL PETERSON, jice President. Pawl. COtamais.BecretarY and TrakattreL 'DAME INSURANCE COMPANY, NO. 809 CHEdiT BURET. ___ INCORPORATED 1856. HARTER pmmpmrtrAb. ' CAPITA - L. also,ooo_, FINN INKTBANcs BauLutBIVIELT. Insures against Lose or DeStiage bj Vial efther b 7 Pa' petuel or Tlnn_vaasi Policial. I Charles IticLisditon, ''''ltoberLrearcA), Wm. II: Maws . John & caller, Jr., WilliamlN. 6.7 , 141, Edward ft. Orne e Henri Lewis, Charles wakes; Nathan nines. John!. W. Brennan, si a A . West. Mordecai Ensbv, et " ! oabinalg__OHASDßOS freiblent, WM. H. iskrAWN Tica-Piesident. WILLIAMS I. BLANCHARD. .aid tit _____ _____ it - ERIC/Ali FIRE INEKTICA.NOE COM• . - - PANT_lnconorated 1810.—Charter peuetual. o. WAILT street , above Third, Philadelpha. Having a largo patJ-Irp Capital_ litor4 and Burpltul in vested in sound and' avallable,nocunneis , continue to insure on dwellings storm, itirniturei merchandise Vessels in port,_ Ana th eir cargoes, and other •imai property. AU beralir ProMptly rifted Butsi3TO Thomas IL Marts,' Bdmu.nC!. John Welsh, Oho-ries W. Poultney, Patrick Brady, • Israel Morris ' , John T. Lewis,John P. Wetherlll, William Pita. ' • TNOKAA R. MAIM, rFtwiPAS4 , &Limas' O. Oltsisloan. Becratlitir. • T4'o' Liverpool donef'',GlO:be Ins. Co:_ GRUI 41 6 §0 239 0 " in the United,Swo • 2,000,660 .Datify Receipts over $2.0,c 1 00.00 . Premittmi in 1868, $5,665,pn.00, Losses' in TB6B, $3,662,445.00 No. 6 Met-chants' Exchange, , ' ji FEE ASSOCIATION" r A PHILADELPHIA. Inoorporated Mairob, W 7, "MO. Office ---NN 34 North Fifth Street, ENSURE BUILDINGS, HOUSEHOLD 711BNITITILI AND 111IBOKANDthE Y GENWRALLY FROM LOBl3 B /IBC Assete January 1, 1869. 51 1 400,005 OS. TRUEITE I B: William H. Malilton, • Charles P. Bower, John Gorrow, Jesse Lightfoot, George I: Young Hobert Shoemaker.' Joseph B. Lynda il, , Peter Armbruster, Levi P. Coate, M. H. Dickinson, Samuel Bparhawk, Peter . Williamson, dm. Aug. Seeger. WM. H. HAMlLTON, • President, BAMBEL SPABHAWK, Vice President. WM. T. BGTLBB, Secretary. • rpsE RELIANCE INSURANCE VON .I. PANT OF PHILADKLPHIAP Incorporated in Jail. Charter Perpetual. Office, No. 308 Walnut street. CAPITAL ' 8308,000. Irumres agains Buil d in g s amage orIRE, on Houses, Stores arid other, limited perpetual, and on Furniture, Goode, Wares and Merchandise In .town or country. I.OBBEB PROMPTLY ADJUSTED AND PAID. Assets. ... . ... ..... $437,68 SI Invested in the following Socnritiosorh="*"" Hirst Mortgages on City Property, well se cured........_ -.......8160,06K1 00 United Statee Government L0an5........... 117,000 00 Philadelphia City 8 Per Cent. Loans...-..._ 76 iii Pennsylvania 83,000,000 6 Per Cent Loan..—.. 80,1 00 Pennsylvania Railroul Bonds,_First Mortgage 8,00000 Camden and Amboy Railroad Company's 6 Per Cent. Loan- 6 , 000 00 Loans on Collaterale 600 00 llnntinsalon and Broad Top 7 Per Gent. Mort gage Bonds 4,660 00 County Fire Insurance Company's Stock...-. 1,0150 00 Mechanics' Bank Stock 4,000 00 Commercial Bank of Pennsylvania Stock. - 10,000 00 Union Mutual Insurance Company's Stock. 380 00 Reliance Insurance Company 01 Philadelphia Stock ...... .... Se' 00 Cash in Bank and 12 D 9 Sifff,s9B 32 Worth this date at market $4.5c381 DIREGTOUB. Thomas C. Hlll,l Thomas H. Moore, William Musser, Samuel °Ratner, Samuel Bispham, James T. Young, • H. L. Canon, Isaac F. Baker, Wm. Stevenson, Christian J. Hoffman, Benj. W. Tingle'', Edward Sli Samuel B. Thomaa, er. THOMAS C. HILL, President. •WM.CsuBB, Secretary.. PHILADELPHIA, February 17,1H49. jal-tu th s tf Worth at Par fO,OOO 00 .IFE INSURANCE AND. TRUST CIO. .L.. 1 TUE GIRARD LIFE INSURANNCE, ANNUITY AND 'TRUST COMPANY OF PHILADELPIIIA.— OFFICE, OR CHESTNUT STREET. ASSETS, 83,083,645-56, JANUARY], P 369. The oldest Company of the kind but one in the State; continue to insure lives on the most reasonable terms and declare profits to the insured for the whole of life. Premiums paid yearly, half yearly, or Quarterly. They receive Trusts of all kinds, whether as Trustees, As signees, Guardians, or Committee of Lunacy. Also, act as Executors and Administrators, to the duties of which particular attention is paid. Deposits and Trust Funds are not in any event liable for the Debta or Obligations of the Company. Charter perpetual. THOMAS RIDGWAY, President. - SETS I. COMLY , Vice President.. 20,000 00 Soma F. JAMES, Actuary. WILLI/ad IL STOEVER Aan't Actuary. N. B.—Dr. B. CLIMBI3ErtLAIN, No. 1411 LOCUST street,attends every day at I o'lock precisely at the office. 0c27 3m ANTHRACITE INSURANCE Catif. PANY.--CHARTEB PERPETUAL,. (Mice, No. 31/ WALNUT Street, above Third, Philada. Will insure against Loss oSr Damage by Firo on Build ings, either perpetually or for a limited time, Household Furniture and Merchandise generally. Also, Marine Insurance on Vessels, Cargoes and Freights. Inland Insurance to all parts of the Union. DIRECTORS. William Esher, Lewis Audenried, D. Luther, John Ketcham, John 11."Blackiston, J. E. Baum, William F. Dean, John B. Heil, Peter Sieger- , Vur,LiAm WILLIAM F. DEAN, Vice President. WK. M. lihmK Secretary. iit22 to th • tt 81,052,100 04 THE PENNSYLVANIA FIRE MEAT -13.1.1iCS COMPANY. Inc° rated 4826d-Oharter Perpetual. No. SID WALNUT street, apposite Independence Sonars. This Company, favorably known to the community for aver forty years, continues to insure against loss or damage by are on Public or Private Baildings, either permanently or for a limited time. Also on ftrnitare, Stocks of Goons, and Merchandise generally, on liberal terms.. Their Capital, together with a large Surplus Fund, is invested In the moat careful manner, which enables them to offer to the insured an undoubted security in the case of leas. . DIBICTOBS. Daniel Smith, Jr., John Devereuz , • illexanderltenson, Thomas Smith, Isaac Haziehurret, Henry Lewis Thorns* Robins, J. Gillingham Fell, Daniel Haddock, Jr. DANIEL SkilTll, Ja., President. WM. G. CROWELL, Secretary. ara-tf MAULE; BROTHER &'00,.. 2500 South Street.. , 1869. "TArgei ELI MAKER S. B . 1869 • CHOICE, SECTION • PAT IeCRIG ORKRN PINE FORES. • 1869.8P-LußtaAl`'LNl)) Mil LL K. 1869. LARGE STOOK. 1869. FLORIDAyLoi YIP2NT.G . .1869. CAROLINA, FLOORING. VIRGINIA FLOORING. • • DELAWARE FLOORING' , ABII FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. 1869."219,1,77 , A1g." . 1869. BAH, PLANK. BAIL PLANK. 1869,wAL"TPITIVWS AND WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK WALNUT BOARDS. WALNUT PLANK. ASSORT R ED FO CABINET BAKERS, BUILDERS, RC. UNDERTAKERS' -LUMBER. 1869 . UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER, RED CEDAR. WALNUT AND PINE. '1869 SEASONED POPLAR. 1869 . SEASONP.D CHKRRY. ASH. WHITS OA-II H PLANK Y. AND BOARDS. ICKOR 1.869." 1111M SC ANTLI N G. NORWAYSCANTLING. 1869. CFED.p.&I3IIIINGLE.4.. 1.869. CYPRESS SON G G I L E E 6 g. LAROE ASSORTMENT. .. FOR. SALE LOW. - -" 1869 L p LASTERiIieLIi:I. H. .1869. LATU. 1111.A1ULE BOOTH= & 'S, CO." 2500 BOUT BTUEZT. Lumber Under Craver, ALWAYS DRY. Walnut, Whits Pine, :Yellow Pine, Einntee, Hemloet Elbingles,ao.talways on hand at low Tates. WATSON , t. ckILLIN GRAM, 92M_ • • . * Mr StreCtg ElSSWeeth Ward. - y "(FELLOW PINE LIIMBER,ORI)ERE 1 for cargoes of every description ab cerva Bayed Lumber exe en. ded ao 11DW n t OWLET. .fiobjbWhanepe.ntiOn PDETURES.—MIEIKEY, MERRILL & TRMArAtar 1in.11.3 Mutant street, manufiter Were of Oen riataree, Leanne, &e., &c., would call the attention of the oldie to their large an d; elegant assort. inent of Gee Obandeliere t Pendants, Brackets, &b. They Idso introduce out pflesi into dwellings and publio build- Sage, au attend to exteudini, altering end repairing OS )piper, ipleel. AU work worrontod, imariULMIE. LUMBER. GAS FIXTURES. Ili THOMAt3 & SONS .sua Rad 111 giatturClUSTilatecist. ales7ooß ii,ND . 134 / 4 LJESTASII., Or' Public at the rthadel his TlOr tir l i ti2•l2 o'clock; P . LX,11113111 vtrutBT , A l f rre lulled at the ‘Aticiteni Biota NO' Sal* at neeidencee receive eatkeclefait'eailoa' VALUABLN LAW LIBRAIIY of Viel...B,RßlND,ltetil ON TIIIRDAY AFTENOON. Dec. 23, at 4 o'clock, including the Pennavlvafili mak" other Reports, Sale at N 0.313 South Fifteenth street: _' HANDSOME FURNITURE, PIANO rourcitAlv' TEL 'MIRROR, tc Dec. 24. at 10 ll a P clo lr etrat A L 53r3118Noull4thGtifteenth street, , by catalogue, the entire Household Furniture, commie-, sag --Nutt Walnut Parlor •Furnlture, covered will D. netplush; Homewood Etagere, Freaoq Plate mirro r brocatifilw marbletop, Rosewood and Walnut ' Centre Tablea, 'brocatillhe marble tope; Oiled W bvq alnut Pilling Roble Furniture,Extension Dining Table, Duffel Sideboard. FrenchkrateMirror, Walnut. ohataberltsrf nitpre_. Walnnt Hat and Umbrella Stand. elegant how, woad Plano Forte.7S4 octavo, Sons ; fine French Plato .Manfel mirror, t Frame; Bronze Figure, fine Engravings and WI atingle, &C. May he examined early on the morning agate. Sale 111 North Thirty , ninth ,street_Wast Philadelphia. NEAT HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, MIRROR; BRUSSELS CARPETS, FEATHER BEDlii ON TUESDAY MORNING. Deo. 20, at 10 o'clock. at No.lll North .Thirty-ninth st. ; Odra Poweltou avenue, will be sold, the Walnut Parlor Furniture, covered with 'hair cloth; Walnut Bouquet Table, small Mirror, gilt frame; Walnut Pitting Roof* Furniture, Exteneion. Dining Table, Lounge, Chinn and Glassware,' Brustcds, Ingrain and Venetian Clartlek,,, Cottage Chamber Furniture, Feather lied. Roister add Pillows, Blankets and. Bedding, Stove, Kitchort ails; ,t c, „. ASi3IGNEE i IVf . 4krip . ...DY - Olftt.4.tot TM 1J Diti. 'T.I46T (jOUIT c 'NEWJEESET • THOMAS h SONS, Auctioneers, V,ALTIABLE RIf,AL ESTATE MACITINERYi TOOLS, PERSONAL PROPERTY OF THE .NATION-( AT: IRON 'ARMOR AND',SRIPBUILDING PANY,_ Kaighn's Point, New Jersey. • _ On TUESDAY MORNING, "January 11, WO; at II o'clock, will be sold et public sale, on tho pm:aloes, iw' the South Ward of Camden, N;J. by ordersof the U.S. • District Court - for tho district of Near Jersey - -; All thereat estate, wharves, marine railway, build- , ings, improrements4 motive power, 'machinery,. 'Weigh , fixtures, personal property and assent of the, National Irdn Armor and Shinbuilding Company,' bankrupt, ins eluding the following : Three lots' of land, situate, la the South Ward of Camden , fronting on Delaware ave nue, abodt 4to feet, having a water front on . the river Delaware of about 800 feet, containing. about 13% acres. and having thereon wharves, buildings' and Improve.'nlehts. .. .. _ . . . . A plan of the _property .maY be: seen , at 104; Market street, Camden, bl. J., where further Information now ho obtained. Terms merle known at time of sato. e j.A.MES A. FREEMAN, AMUTIONEBEEN - No. 422.WALNDY itreet.. NEAL ESTATE SALE, DEC. 29,1809. Me Bale, on WEDNESDAY, at 12 o'clock noon. ail tho. Exchange, will include— No. 1119 N.. SECOND ST- , l.Throo-story brick store and dwelling, lot 24 by 140 foot. Subject to .1120 ground, rent. Orphans' Court Sale. Estate of Paul Knalock. dee'd. 1(o.813 PINE ST—Genteel three•story brick dwelling, with back buildings, lot 18 by 72. feet. Subject to en'. ground rent. • No. 182.5 RIDGE AVENUE—New threereterr briar store and dwelling. with back buildings, and. modern , conveniences, lot 18 by 189 feet to 'Ohanney et. Terms easy. • lIIIILDING 'LOTS—Fifteenth street, above Venango street, lotto by 172% feet to Blather at. - • Nos. 1030, 1032 and 103 i TASKER ST 4 .-3 genteel three story brica dwellings, with back buildings, each Id by es - feet. (81,600 may remain. No. 919 WATkINS NT...Neat two story brick 'dwelling and lots 14 by 43 feet. _First Ward. Sflb! Absolute. N 0.820 N. TWENTIETH KT-Z.-Neat modern •thrin story brick dwelling, with back buildings, lot 13 by 71) feet. .No. 710 CULLEN ST--Two-story brick , dwelling. Seventh Ward, lot 14 bs 36 feet. Orphans' Court Sale. Estate el Cyrus Blask t •dee'd,, and Josephine Addison. minor. friBIONIAB BIRCH 85' Batty AUCTION% Jl.. ERRS AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS,. No. 1410 CHESTNUT street. Rear entrance No. 110 Hansom street. Household Furniture of every description received of Consignment.. • Sales of Furniture at dwellings attendedtu on the most . . reasonable terms: Salo at No. 1110 Chestnut-street. ELEGANT CABINET FURNITURE, SIX ROSE -WOOD CARPETS.. TES, FRENCH BRUSSELS AND °TUBE FRENCH PLATE MI RRQRS, PARLOR AND CHAMBER- SUITS. MUSICAL, BOXES, VASES. CLOCKS, FANCY GOODS, Jrc ON FRIDAY MORNING. • - • At '9 o'clock, at the auction store, No. 1110 Chestnut street, will be Bold, by catalogue, a large assortment of elegant Parlor, Chamber, Dining Room and Library Furniture. PIANO FORTES. Rosewood Piano Forte. by Haines & Co.;Bro.', Soho marker & - Mallet , Darla; Reed & Co.; Reichent back and others. . . MUSICAL BOXES, • Also; three elegant large H 17.0 Musical Boxes, FANCY GOODS. Also, French Mantel Clocks, Jarilineres, Vases, Orna ments. &c. BUNTING, DUItBOROW AUCTIONEEBB. Nos. 232 and 294 MARKET street. corner of Bank strati, Successors to JOHN B. MYERS & Oct. CLOSING SALE OF CARPETING/3,OAL CLOTHS, atc. ON FRIDAY MORNING, Dec. 24 at - 11 o'clock, on four months' credit, about' 100 pieceslngrain, Venetian, List, Demi), Cottage and Bar .Carpetings, Oil Cloths, Rugs. &c. Also, • - 14 pieces large size PRINTED DBUGGE TS. CLOSING SALE OF WOO CASES BOOTS, SHOES, BROGANS. itc. ON TUESDAY MO RNING. Dec. 28. at 10 o'clock, on font I;nontho' credit. CONCERT HALL AUCTION BOOMS, 1219 CHESTNUT street, T. A. McCLELLAND. Ancthmeer SALE AT THE vrAnznooms OF JOSERR WAL TONC FR IDAY 413 WALNU MORNINT SOTILEET. ON . Dec. 24, commencing at 10% o'clock, will be. sold, by talsgue, the large stocibnf Furniture manufactured by the well known house/If 'Joseph Walton 'ls Co. ' sad wtich was slightly damaged by the late fire at their , store, but bag now been put In complete condition; mid will bo sold at their warerooms on the , day above named. , without reserve. N. 13.-Ifor particulars and catalogues call at the stereo of the Auctioneer, T. A. Mane Hand. 1219 Chestnut street. . BYBABRITT & CO. AUCTIORBEIM CASH AUCTION lEIOUSE, No. 2M MARKET greet. corner of Bank street. URS. FURS. FURS. TWELFTH FALL TRADE SALE OF AMERICAN AND IMPORTED FURS, Sleigh and Carriage ROW, Afghans, ke., by catalogue, ON FRIDAY MORNING. Dec. 24, commencing at IU o'clock, comprising 1000 lots Ladies', Misses' and Ohlldren's Russia, Hudson Bay arull Id ink Sable, Siberian Squirrel. Ermine, Fitch, Mister blink. Sic. AIso,ROBE. AFGHANS, RUGS, &c., Viz., Wolf, l'ox, Buffalo, Oat and Bear Robes. DAVIS & HARVEY, AUCTIONEERe s (Late with M. Thomas it Sons) Store Nos. 48 and eO North SIXTH street Orphans' Court Sale. Estate of Patrick Murray, deceased. ON THURSDAY, DEC. 30, • • A t . 12 o'clock noon at the Philadelphia Exchange,S Three-story' Brick Dwellings, Twenty-fourth street, north of Biddle street ,Fifieenth Ward; 17 feet front,Bo feet deep to Osprey street. Ground rout $3l. rp,Fl PI PEEN C.LPAL MONEY ESTAI3 19116 ment—S. E. corner of SIXTH and RACE Weida, Money advanced on Merchandise generally—Watches. Jewelry, Diamonds, Gold and Silver Plate, and .452 a ll articles of value, for any length of time agreed on. WATCHES AND JEWELRY AT PRIVATE BALM Wine Gold Hunting Case, Double Bottom and o_stin Taos English, American and Swiss Patent Lever Watches; ' Fine Gold Hunting Cue and Open FaceLepineWatchas; Wine Gold Duplex and other Watches; Fine Silver Hunt , lag; Case and Open Face English, American and Sidle Patent Lever and Levine Watches; Double Gnu 'English Quartier and other Watches Ladles' Fancy Walchaig Diamond Breastpins; Finger-Rings ; Ear Rings; &c.;Fine Gold Chains; Ifedallions; Bracelets; Bcarg Pins; Breastpins; ringer Binge; Pencil Osseo and Jaw an' generally. FOR SALE —A large and valuable Fireproof Cheat. imitable for a Jeweller; cost e aux Also, several Lots in South Camden. Fifth and Cheat. nut streets. 1869. Cl D. EIoCLEEI3 & •AUCTIONEERS, No. 1506 MABNlVretreet. HOOT AND SHOE SALES DAtt EVABY MONDAY AND TIIMI • • ARTIE BROTHERS, AITOTIONIEERB, j~~ / (Lately Salesmen for M. imm Soni,) • . • ,629 OLIESTNUT street. rear, entrance from Minor. ri L. ASHBRIDOE: & CO., AUL/TM* kgßti. No. Ben MARKET street.' above fifth. 1869. MACHINERY. IRON, &C. MERRICK & SONis, SOUTHWARK FOUNDRY, • 4) WASHINGTON A.venue, Philadelphia, Pressure f3TiA4 ENGINES MANUF —High and Low Pressure, Horhina tal, Vertical, Beam, Vacillating, Blast and Gorndsill Pumping. BOlLERS—Cylinder, Flue, Tubular, dto. S,Alti HANICERS—Narmyth and Da* TF stylea, *Mot . all sizes. CASTINGS—Loan, Dry and Green Sand, Grata, to. • ' • ROUES—Iron Fratries, for covering with Slate or frog. TANKS—Of Cast or Wrought Iron,for refineriee.wattls, — oil, AT-. 5t j GAS MACHINERY--Such as Retorts - Bench • Holders and Frames, Purifiers, Cote and GRealltosil Harrows, Valves, Governors, do. SUGAR MACHINERY---Such as Unit= Pani Mid Pumps, Defecators, Bone Black Filters, /limn% Washers and Elevators, Dag Filters, Sugar and Dow Bleak Cars, /cc. Sole manufacturers of the following specialtfain In Philadelphia and vicinlty,ofWillb , m,Wrighl'arstssill Variable Cut-off Steam Engine. In the United States, of W rata nitlatent ISelflienC fn and Self-balancing Centrifugal agar-dridaing chin e lass & Barton'sD Improvcantint on Aspinwall A Woo 1 0 • Centrifugal. Hartot's Patent Wrest_ int-Igen Retort Lid. Etraban's Drill Grin ding: Beat. - _ • Contractors for the design, erection end fitting up of fineries for Working Sugar pr Nolsaseii. • ,` (UPPER AND YELLOW METAL Sheathing, Dra t isieee Copper' Nail i Bolt, 1 4,.../1141113, Cooper, constantlt one and Lir tole lig aumasis WLIIIBOR o, No ERsonne Wharves niLS.-I,dOO_IIA_ALS. WINTER UP P 4 ILA Oil 1,100 d9./I.lV".AVbale Oil SW 4s. B. • 1,44, do. Racked Wbilow 011 bbLe.l , ! k 2 oil. in eture and for sale 1 , 00011/41.1 1 Bilasilas 00 11 Ph stnutstreell4:, §PIRITS TURP AND 'ROSIN. 86 barrels Turontino ;292 boxy& Pole 9kJap ofiln ; 102 barrolo o. landinsgper "Pioneer." For oby E.DW:II. BOWLIBT.V I MII rand street: • • .. 4•,.f,!:ittl ! *.'.-I*' , 'i ?:, , '4" ,, ;',% , , , *: . t , :;,,,;,•,,,. , Avoriorq' Ramp: - • .. 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