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A - Hs<m? -s ' joi BAVAstfAi, ok; I '/;
THE STEAMSHIP KEYBTOSH STATE. • •*’
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; BAboWAog 1 185 Vf Mfctoj/Attf,'? 1657
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'i RetmSy Ocf 2f 1867 iVeiaeßdijr, Oet. 28, 1867,
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materials la ererr department, Under the liiipectlon Df
an oflcer Inithe.yflllad «»sw> fh«nf areyalwat
2,400 tons Wrtien, ,*k« dlmenstona of the WABHINO-
I*OK‘N!fn> foot bcanh end Sl’feet
: faSKttANH 2&V4o,end 31
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otdet, an4 : i»-futalHiaitwitt eott
<>Jv*tOTrln*.loPOjtbM of. coal,denying
fmiltht room foi* ntKitit 650 toils rueisaretnent.' There
ataJwoA'pawwwer accommodatioiafor XOperuiUte
McKtitfp- f-s> s< , . .i] ■ v
tatty'
jjs!*Wt* l, Ss*®J 1 *^( l kS>r} anctosiaj chains ani cablet,
Walag, table Mrtlce^gliejwnMj
dltpOteJof ntpHrati ialeTtbtfy will
public auction atthe'Merthahta' Exchange,
011 Hwßniyayot October.
a ®*v »&<*•> ihera* «&ff than sold to the highest bldtjir,
without reserve: - * "•
_ of the Oeeiui
IWagJai'iajifUpn.'ll atytj,WQqfat itim^V
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3,500 W ■
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the 81«sgow «4 tfew.YMk Stwn
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Steiner* fca jflw.lSjtto r slwp)«' direst, is follows i
,it- f ROXHawyojlK. ( -;ij. .. ■
Jiew York, eaturday, June 20,12 neon. r
EdMmrg, Ssturday, duly 11.12 noon,
s lllMgow,Wednesday. Aug. fi,X2liooa. ■' ■
„fct 'RfwW«fc,ihitttrfl»r, ,<
Sopt' noon,
■'- O inou GLABOOVT.
: $&&&?*/• '
Jldthbarg, Aug, 8.
r>' *4Ms,<W.rAMAo*.t». •. ,t ..
£ir*tclM*, $76; third olasb, found with cooked/pro*
visions, 880. -An experienced surgeon ittaehsdto each
onlj!iM«l»*d Bor (Man. «> v. ~;
JL Jfeir.Tock idd Batts Sfeeamgbfp
Dnitod Stated HaU Steamships ABAGO. ions.
David Lines,' eemttander/TandrFtrLTON, - 9,M0 -ton*.
JamesA. New Fork,
for the years 1867 and ’63. on
weJfolloirlordaysi*, *■'••' ■ - 1 • » * >
Fulton, Baturdajy'Aug. $9 Axiko; Saturday, Jan. 9
Arago, do. Bept. 10 Fulton. do.-’ Feb: 6
Fu1t0n,.,,. d 0.,- rjOct._~.lT r do. ; , .-Harehd
Anfo, do. Nov, li Fulton, do. . April s
Fulton, . do: Dec: 12 Arago; do/ - Msy 1
- V' 3 5-<- r .v':}' ’ Falton, .? do. - 29
-. l*irf* im*v'*•’
X
Fulton, doi'goTfi. 22
Aragpj do. ‘ 0«. 99
Fulton, do, . t .Nov.. 17.
Areg£, do. • Dec.ls
1958. •
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. ' 1867; ,• r
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FuUoi*,.., d 0..; r Nor-18,
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Arngo, d0,.,V01). 10
Fulton, . ‘do. JUr. 10
Ar«6>-' do. April 7
Fulton, . .do,; Ha/ 6
Artgo, • .-do, -Juno2
\ do. 1 ’ June 30
fASSAOB:
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; . South’ton.
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) ■ :
Faltojjju. do/ .- Jan. 19 •>
Arago, do; ■ Feb. 9
Fulton, do. -' March 9
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Fulton, do. Hay 4
Axago, do; Jnnel.
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T?REDERICK BROWN^HEMIST
' iwM4rlb»dter?««• MedieilPdi
TENNaaeoce lea preparation ot caaaaal exeellmyie.
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koVela.ld
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C4EnQN.rPetaoiird*lrtag w~Ktlple thateaa da.
relied and; prepared bolPlyfrompoiS JAMAICA (IIN
GEB. fiould bJ pertleSCr fc :a*;to(',.‘‘Sii>*ii'a!*d
teMtof»jfaai*toJlito**t,M»Wel| U vaTraataAtosbe'
RlCfc^SOl^^dk^iit'S^ « I J'.'>y »RJ(ENj
■ StoWr'iiortll-eaet comer of PIETH *JiiVW£BTSVT
gtreifcPhUaaelpMd f eodjyau
gWSd Apothecaries Id then. Rt*tPe.. !i aol-Mi
X®f*XOHTII »lul QUEEN street*, Philadelphia, Hi
h, gtWKHQnSE, Proprietor. Always «n hand tie
SoW«tldee.«t,»&, MEDICINES, PBRPD.
M3KY, CIGARS, &e. .
Steekhonee’e Patent sgilter Soda Water Podatala
keapsthevater at 38 **. j-Wd Syrups an* Oretraa are
acSjwitfcdjed bjitHadtSlfigShe richefct Id the' <%.'■■-•
■_ ■ fenl-ltai.-.4 : '-*<■' ' *
COX-1
V>. Of. SEV*fi*H
Mad Stecots.'Socbndondf bird Stories. . .
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* ißiifidatl ioKtruction from cortioo
tb>‘ iinJnd&te
VOL. I—NO. 15.
fiittangeta &tnbc in JJljUabelptjici.
the benefit or strangers and others who way de
eire'to visit any of our public institutions, we publish
1 the annexed lUt. . - ;
i • ' i. syai.iopi.icts or iuostumv.
- Academy of Bfusfc, (Operatic.) corner of Broad and
Leftist streets. - * -
-Arufc-Sfteel Theatre. Arch, above 6th street.
< Parkinson s Garden, Chestnut, above Tenth,
i national ThSarre and Circus. Walnut, above Eighth.
.Sau&fard’B Opera House,(Ethiopian.) Eleventh, below
Market. . . . «•«/ >
. Walnut Street Theatre, northeast corner Ninth and
Wunui.
, Varieties, Jifth and Chestnut.
; Thomas’s.Opera House, Arch, below Seventh.
, . AATB\lllP SCISNOXB.
• Academy of Natural Bciences, corner of Broad and
t George streets. .
’ Arts, Chestnut, above Tenth.
■' Artists* Fund H&lljJChestnnt, above Tenth.
I .Franklin Institute, No. $ South Seventh street.
: , RtSSEyOLUKT -ISBtLtDTIOHS. , .
Almshouse, west side of Schuylkill, opposite South
Street,* • • ’
Almshouse (Friends 1 ), Walnut street, above Third
• Association for the Employment of Poor Women, No.
saao^enStreet' ‘
* Aaylnm for Lost Children, No. 86 North Seventh
Street., t
Blind’Asylum,Bace, near Twentieth street.
Christ Church Hospital, No. 8 Cherry street.
; City Hospital,'Nineteenth street,'near Coates.
. Clarkson’s HalLNo. 163 Cherry street.
' Dispensary, Fifth,' below Chestnut street.
Female'Socletyfor the Belief and Employment of the
Poor) No, 73 North Soventb street,
i Guardians' of the. Poor, office No. 66 North Seventh
street.’" • - - • -, 1 ' -
• German Society Hall, No.-8 South Seventh street.
1 Homo for. Friendless Children, Buttonwood street,
below Broad.' '
IndigentWidows’ and Single Women’s Society, Cherry,
east of Eighteenth street.-
v ; Masonic .Hall, Chestnut, above Seventh street.
Magdalen Asylum, corner of Bace and Twenty-first
streets. a < - •
. 1 Northern Dispensary, No. 1 Spring Garden street.
‘ Orphans’ Asylum, (colored,) Thirteenth street, near
CallowhUl.
. Odd Fellows’ Hall, Sixth and Haines street.
.Do. . do.- S.E. corner Broad and Spring Gar.
’ - den streets.
' • Do. ; do. Tenth and South streets.
. Do. do. Third and Brown streets.
. DO. do. Hldge Road, below Wallace.
5 Pennsylvania Hospital, Fine street, between Eighth
and Ninth.
; Pennsylvania Institute for the Instruction of the Blind,
' corner Race and Twentieth street.
Pennsylvania Society for Alleviating the Miseries of
Public Prisons, Sixth and Adelphl streets.
1 Train *»S School for Idiotic and Feeble-
Minded Children, School House Lane. Germantown,
office No. 163 Walnut steet.
. ] Philadelphia Orphans’ Asylum, northeast cor. Eigh
teenth and Cherry •
' . Preston Betreit, Hamilton, ‘ near Twentieth street.
* Providence Society, Prone, below Sixth street.
, Southern Dispensary, No. 98 flhippen street.
. Union Benevolent Association, N. W. corner of
Seventh and Sansom streets.
between Eighteenth andNine
’ iSt. Josenh’a Hospital, Girard avenue, between Fif
teenth and Sixteenth.' f
jEpUwpal Hospital, Front street, between Hunting
don and Lehigh avenues.
- ‘PhUadelphiaHospital for Diseases of theObest.S.W.
comer of Chestnut and Park streets, West Philadel
phia. , , *
PUBLIC BUILDIKOS.
(Custom House, Chestnut street, above Fourth.
; County Prison, Passynnk road, below Heed,
j Tobacco Warehouse, Hock and Spruce streets.
*• Oity CoutTOller’aOffice, Girard Bank, second story.
; Commissioner of City Property, office, Girard Bank,
M«m4 story. < , * '
‘ -City Treasurer’s Office, Girard Bank, second story.
; .City Commlulonpr’a Office, State House.
. 5/ty BoHdtor’s Office, Fifth, below Walnut. >
Watering Committee’s Office, Southwest corner
Fifth and Chestnut.
Water Works, Fairmount on the Sehuyl-
Oirart Trust Treasurer’s Office. Chestnut.
Bouse of Industry, Catharine, above Seventh.
House of Industry, Seventh, above Arch street.
House of Refuge, corner Poplar and William.
House orßefhge, (colored.) WiUlam and Brown.
- Health Office, comer of Sixth and Sansom. '
House of Correction, Bush Hill..
street^ 110 .wsy’s Ferry road, below South
Mavor’s office, 8. W. corner Fifth and Chestnut
streets,, ,
New Coates street, between Twenty
fourth awLTwenty-fiftb streets, - J
.. Navy Yard, on the Delavr&re.ctjrner Front and Prime
attests, -
Northern liberties Qta Work,, Malden, below Front
street, ... : ’
Port, Office, No. 1 237 Cook etreot, opposite the Ei-
-
’ PonOfiooj Keoslogtoo, Frenkfordro&d, below Shack,-
maxon itroet. ■ ,
Offlce, Spring Oerden, OeilowhlU, near Eighth
bickrtreeflr* Exchange, - corner Third, Walnut and
Philadelphia Gas Works, Twentieth and Market; oHce,
No- sa. Sercoth etreet. ' •
r Tennsjrlvaaia Inatitnte for Beat and Dumb, Broad and
Pine atreets. , . ’
Monument, Beach, above Shackamaxon
pohllp.Higb. School, corner Broad and Green
streets. •".* ....
PublicSfdrtoalSchool;Sergeant, above Ninth.
-• peeevdet’s Office; No. fl State House, east wine.
House, Chestnut street,between Filth and Bixth
BberUTs Office, State House, near Sixth street.
/• Sprinjr Garden Commisaicmor’s Hall, Spring Garden
-ipfe Thirteenth stmts.. , - *
Union , Temperance- Hall, Christian, above Ninth
, Spited State* Miftt.earner of Chestnut and Juniper
sweets,/ ■ ... r
putted States Arsenal, Gray>sFerry Road, near Fede
ral Street.
#*** Asylum;'on the Schuylkill, near South street.
" Hatted States Army and Clothing Equipage, comer of
Twelfth and Girard streets., • ' .* ,
.•.United States . Goartermaster’s Office, corner of
Twelfth and Ginfrd streets.' •* '
> - > -OOLLBOM.
-,{ College of Pharmacy, Zana street, above Seventh.
Ewtctic'Medical College, Haines'street, west of Sixth.
Glm4 College, Bidge road and College Avenue.
- pomoopathic MedJcal . College, Filbert street, above
Eleventh. .
“ v Jefferson Medical College, Tenth street, below George.
•. Medicaljnstitate, Locust, above Eleventh street.
Polytechnic College, corner Market and West Penn
Pennsylvania Medical College, Ninth street, below
Locust, <.
; Philadelphia Medical College, Fifth street, below
Wilnnt. - J ' ' 2 ' *■ '■'•■'•
"•, Female Medical Callage, 229 Arch street,
Pennsylvania, Ninth street, between
.Market *nd Chestnut. •
• Vr of PreoMedfc&e and Popular Knowledge,
;No. 68 Arch street.. i
"1 . <* • " ..MMU«bH.Or OOORTS
ynlted States Circuit’ and District Courts, No. 24
Fifth street, below. Chestnut. ’
stSi?™' - f With and Chestnut
’* Goartc? Cowmon Pleas, Independence itftU.
o ** o ? 48 * Wo#.: 1- and 2, corner of Sixth and
Chestnut streets. ,
Court of Quarter Sessions, 1 corner of Sixth and Chest'
traf StreetaL' - : -
. .. BELIQIODS IN8?I?OTlOS8, , , L
mwricka'Baptist Publication, Society, No. 118 Arch,
bet’ ■ ■
American «ad foreign. Christian Union, No, 144Chest'
''4werfc»fa~ Sunday School UnJon, No. 316 Chestnut
r.irectSoclety,,ne» No. 929 Chestnut.
' Meuaulst, Crown street, below Oallowhill street,
L.PenhSylfaiiinundPhlbuftMilu Bible Society, corner
[ ofJteventkandWalnntstreeta. •
!' ■■ presbytcrlan Board of. Publication, No. 265 Chestnut
•Presbyterian Publication Hcuso, No. ISS4 Chestnut
Strfet.' ■
Meri<« Oiristinn As«ottation, No. 162, Chestnut
,EliH»delphU'Bible,,lnct, *ad Perlodicsl Offloe (T.
AwJi rtreet, first home heloir
Sixth itfieet, north aide. •
<£r«o*U«r’s (Bmibe.
RAILKOADiINES. "
. Binlml R. R.—Otpat; Plerenth and Market.
A- ; Mall Train for Pittsburgh and the West.
P-M., Past Line for Pittsburgh and the Weet.
fjy^*
'9MI
n
V, M.'/for Harrisburg and Colombia.
P. M.*; Accommodation Train for Lancaster.
*» SL f for Pittrtniigh and tbs West.
Reading Railroad—T>b pot, Broad and Vino.
A. M., Express Train for Pbttsville, Williamsport,
iShhira and Niagara Falk.
/ P« H.»** *hoye (liigbtjxpresa Train.)
i 7',, Asia For*l>tne*. ’
.1 A,. M.j from X«rfngtep; tia'Jerue/Oi^.
6A. from Camden, Accommodation Train. ■ ■
74 Mm JereejCltj', Mall. .
3&K.,rteCaDMien l Acccnjtnvia?ionTrafn.
SFJ. M., via Camden and Jersey City, Mali.
®Pj. M;, rla Camden and Amltyr, 'Accommodation.
' A \ ,' : Connecting Lines.
« A. M.,fromWftlnttt street whaff, for Belvidere.Easton,
- { ' -Water Gap, Scranton. Ac. '
« 4 M*jfo* Freehold.
Tfa H i forMoant HoUy. from Walnut street wharf.
2 K JL. for Freehold. ’
2,9* P. MV, for Mount Holly, Bristol. Trenton, Ac.
fS’ S ' !°* Wwa, mirfiogton; Bordentown, Ac,
4 Pi M., for Belrfdere,Barton, Ac., from Walnut street
I & Pi Bn for Mount Holly, Burlington, Ac.
,? d *. ■BoWmore R. H.—Depot, Broad and Prime.
Wilmington, New Castle,Mid
?' J, w ' . ' dtetowa,Jfover,*ftd'geaford. ’
Baltimore,,Wilmington, and New Castle.
AlftP.M.jfoi* Wilmington. New Castle, Middletown,
7_ J- M Dover, and geaford. 1
srvKm Front and Willow. 1
H? * i or ®* l blriiom, Easton, Mauch Chunk. Ac.
8.44 A, M.jforDoylestown. Accommodation , 3
5$ w ?w £aaton » Mauch Chunk, Ac.
4 Pi M., for Dovlertown,'Accommodation 3
8.34 M., for Gwynedd: Accommodation
10.4& A. M., for Haddonfield.
SJPj M/. for Atlantic City. ■
5.44 P. if. t for HaddonbeJd.
I 1• ’ * ‘" ' For' "Westchester.
\1 By Columbia R.3l;and Westchester Branch. 1
From Market street, south side, above Eighteenth.
Leave Philadelphia? A. M. t and 4P. M.
t -Weitoh ester 0.80 A. M.,and3P. M.
M ' Os 80ND4V3
L'eive Philadelphia 7 A. M.
i< Westchester BP. M.
.WefetcJftsifiT Direct’ Railroad,'open to Pennelton, Grubbs
,;J . , Bridge.
, ; Prom northeast Kighteenth and Market streets.
Leave Philadelphia 8, and 9 A. M., 2. 4, and 0 P. M.
\\<? -Penneltoh,-Grubbs Bridge, 7,8, and 11 A. M,and
' 1 L . ~ 4*UM?/M.
'Oh Sitiinjayg last train from Penn el ton at 7 A. M,
- •• ' Oh SbNpAYS
Leave Philadelphia 8 A. M. ; and 2T. M.
.. J\ PenneHoofltf A.M. aud 6P\ M,
'GtintonioieH k Norristown R. , R. —Depot, 9th and
i "• l Green - . * ' •
:sU.andUA. M..and8,445,0.45, and J1.15P.M.,
V: j „„ .. for Norristown. , .
.■ 6Ai ST; and 3 P. M., forDOwningtown, ■B
. "o r B, #,lO, udn.Bo 2. ~ 0,8, amISTC
*• .. M.for Chestnut HUI. : . ? )
. ?, B,j», MM, udlWO, A. 5f.,5n41,2,3.10,4, 6,
; ■ ‘ V,1,% K ted 11.80 p. M.. for faetouitoira.
Ckti>.r 4.—Lei.f MiUfldelph'* 6 A- If. and
. fj|»WWnli^toVß^i‘.>i,aiidlf.|t.
,-BtEAMBOAT LINES. ,
i lJ* 30 P.ji.jßichard fltoekton.for Bordentown. from
» 1 walhutstteet wharf.. ' " .
MMIWteA, M>>«BA4P. Mi, for Tacony,'Burling'
_a . „ end Bristol, from Walnnt, street wharf.
v -.9 80 A.-M'i JVkware, Boatoo, and Hennebec. for C»i»e
firttpter betowgpruee Street’ ™
SOiiM., and 2, 3,«idOP. M., John A. WArner
;£> j v.:4®i?,^h 0 fa Morgan, for Bristol. Bur
ysu ' J ~' ilngtoß, «cr. r
i J.SjSdA'. Milae&titl- Msßoaild, fcr Can May,. erer?
fe{f; ..
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Editor and Proprietor.
Publication Office of The Weekly Pbbss, No. 417
Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
&jt jress.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1857.
THE PHILADELPHIA CUSTOM HOUSE
We have frequently heard the remark, that
the operations of the National Government
were by no means so tully understood and
appreciated by a large portion of the Ameri
can people, particularly those residing in the
interior, as the movements of State, county,
and municipal organizations. Whatever truth
there may be in this opinion certainly applies
with additional force to the collection of the
National revenue. The taxes whialj defray all
local expenditures are direct, and every tax
payer is brought info comihunication with the
tax-gatherer. The large revenues of the Gen
era! Government are obtained in a very differ
ent manner. We hear of anmial receipts and
annual, expenditures of some $60,000,000 to
$70,000,000, but the agents of the General
Government never apply to us individually for
any portion of that sum. We have had terrific
agitations on the tariff question, in which it has
been very elaborately discussed, but it has
always been argued principally with reference to
the doctrine of protection, pro or con. When
the “tariff” is spoken of as a tax, as it is, there
are not a few who open their eyes in amaze
ment ; for, some how or other, the idea was at
one time quite prevalent that a tariff was a
grand arrangement which showered the most
extravagant .benefits uponaliwho were engaged
in manufacturing, in particular, and upon every
body else, in gcnoral, if it was only “high”
enough, and which would inevitably “ruin”
the country if by any accident it should become
“low.” The revenue derived from a tariff is
jpst as certain to come from the pockets of the
people as that obtained by direct taxation, but
the proedss by which it is extracted, being
somewhat more intricate and complicated, is
leas perceptible. Importing merchants who
buy foreign goods abroad enter them at the
custom house, and pay in gold the amount of
duties levied, which varies as the tariff is high
ot low. Wholesale jobbers, in turn, buy of
the importers, who of course add to the price
ajsum proportioned to the amount of duty thoy
iipe paid. Betailers buy of the jobbers, and
tiie price at which thoy, in turn, sell, is
swelled by the amount of duties paid on the
original entrance of the goods ipto tho country.
Every merchant who deals in foreign waves
upon which any duty is levied—and as the free
list is confined to but a comparatively few
articles, this remark, of course, applies to
nearly all foreign goods sold—thus becomes,
in point of fact, a collector of revenue from
the people, for the National Government.
This is rarely frilly realized when we make our
purchases of goods. If at tho end of tho year
we could examine our store bills, and see how
much we have paid for the articles we have
consumed themselves, and how much of thoir
market price was made up of tho duty paid to
the Government, we should bo greatly as
tonished. During the year 1856-58, the
sum of $64,022,863.50 was collected from
customs, which iB an average of nearly
$2.60 from every inhabitant of the United
States. Pennsylvania having nearly one
tenth of the population* of tho Union,
no doubt paid at least one-tenth of this
tax, and, owing to the excess of the average
consumption of foreign goods by her popu
lation over the ’general average consumption
of the whole population of the Union, her citi
zens must have paid much more.
The building appropriated to the collection
of the revenue in Philadelphia is in Chestnut
street, above Fourth, and was formerly occupied
by the United States Bank. It cost that cor
poration about $600,000; After the Bank sus
pended operations the Government bought it,
with the, ground upon which it is located, for a
very low sum— $266,887.
It is doubtful whether, at the present day.
so eligible a site could be had, and so,fine a
building erected, for an expenditure of less
thin 11,000,000.
The business of the collection of customs
at this- port tojlransacted under the supervision
of a collpr 4 naval officer, a surveyor, an
appraiser 1 , sge, and two general appraisers
who are appointed by the President. Those
officers, in turn, appoint their subordinates.
We glean the following information in regard
to the number of the latter from the Blue
Book of 1866-6:
The three of the collectors office consists
of the collector, two deputies, a cashier
and assistant, twenty clerks, a keeper of the
Custom House, a messenger, a porter, and two
night watchmen; also, a storekeeper of the
port, a superintendent of public warehouses,
and two assistants, a marker, a weigher, and
four assistants; two gaugers, four measurers,
forty-four inspectors, a lieutenant of night-in
spectors, and twenty-five night-inspectors, thir
teen revenue agents, six night-watchmen, and
four boatmen.
Tho force of the naval office consists of the
naval officer, a deputy, seven clerks, and one
messenger.
The force of tho surveyor's office consists of
the surveyor, his deputy, two clerks, and a
messenger.
The force of tho appraiser's office consists
of the appraiser at largo, two genoral apprais
ers, two assistant appraisers, five clerks, three
examiners, two samplers, three packers, a spe
cial examiner of drugs, two messengers, and
two watchmen.
This makes a total of one hundred and sov
enty-flve persons regularly employed at this
port in tlie collection of the revenue. A mi
nute and detailed description of tho manner
in which the custom-house business is trans
acted would occupy far too much space
for insertion here, and would bn tedious
to tho reader, but a short sketch of it
may not be uninteresting. It is based upon
as complete a system of checks and balances
as can well be devised, and is admirably calcu
lated to protect the Government from imposi
tion and fraud, without subjecting importers
to serious Inconvenience, as well as to insure
the fidelity and accuracy of its own officers.
Each vessel .arriving here from a foreign
country brings with it a manifest which con
tains a. list of all tbe packages on board,
with their marks and numbera, and the names
of their consignees whenever they are known.
Upon the arrival of the vessel, it is reported
at the surveyor’s office, certain ibes paid,
the Manifest given to the collector, and one
or - more inspectors are assigned to the
charge of the vessel by the surveyor until its
cargo has been frilly discharged, and clearance
PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1857.
papers, authorizing it to leave the port, ob
tained, The inspectors aro forbidden t<> allow
any package to ho Liken from tl\e vessel with
out a written permit from the collector’s office,
countersigned by the naval officer. They
watch the vessel, delivering the goods on hoard
as permits are received, during the day? and the
night inspectors watch it during the night.
After the vessel has been discharged, they
make a full return of the goods found on boaid,
embracing a statement of the goods delivered
to the importer, direct, on permits, those sent
to the appraiser’s stores to be examined, those
sent to warehouse, and those sent on gcueral
order to the public stores, -If the manifest,
after being carefully examined in the col
lector’s, naval, and surveyor’s offices, is
found to agree with the inspector’s return, the
vessel readily obtains clearance papers. If
any discrepancy exists, strict inquiry is made
into its cause, and if not satisfactorily ex
plained, suspicions of a design of smuggling
naturally arise, and its owners are subjected to
heavy penalties.
The importing merchant obtains the invoices
of his goods, either in advance of, or with the
vessel which brings them to the port. Upon
the data thus furnished him he makes out
an entry of his merchandise, embracing a
statement of the marks and numbers, value, &c.,
of his goods, which he presents, accompanied
by his invoices, at the Custom House. Ho
gives bonds as a security for any contingency
that may arise in the course of the business
of getting his entry “through” the Custom
House,'and swears to the validity of his in-,
voices. The entries are placed in charge of
the ascertaining clerks of the collector’s office,
who test their correctness, calculate the
amount of duties upon thorn, and designate
certain packages or samples of each invoice
to be sent to the appraisers for examination.
The correctnessof these entries is also verified
by the naval office. The importer then pays
certain fees, and the amount of duties assessed,
and receives a permit which enables him to ob
tain at once, from the inspector, all of the
goods embraced upon his entry except those
which have been sent to the appraisers for ex
amination.
After a vessel has been in port a certain
number of days, varying according to its size
and character, a general order is issued. The
effect of this is, that all goods which have not
been obtained from the vessel on a fixed day,
by permits described as above, are taken in
the possession of the Government, removed
from the vessel, held as security for the pay-,
ment of duties, and if not called for within
twelve months, sold at public sale, to secure
the duties due upon them.
. All goods purchased by weight, as sugar,
iron, &c., are weighed by the weighers. Those
purchased by measurement, as salt, &c., arc
measured by the measurers. Liquids purchased
by quantity, as brandy,wine, &c., are gauged by
gaugers. The appraisers receive either pack
ages or samples of the goods embraced in every
invoice. They compare the quality of the
former with the price stated upon the latter.
If in tlieir judgment, formed from all the best
sources of information within their reach, the
price stated agrees with the true market value
of the article at the place of exportation at
the time It was exported, they report the in
voice as correct, and the importer obtains his
package. If they consider the value stated
upon the invoice less than the true market
value, they advance the price accordingly. It
this excess exceeds a certain per centage, the
importer is obliged to pay not only the duty on
the additional valuo ascertained, but also
twenty per cent, if an American importer, and
fifty per oent. if a consignee of a foreign
house, upon the whole amount of the invoice.
Clear cases of premeditated fraud are punished
by penalties still more severe.
The results of the operations of Iheweighers,*
measurers, gaugers, and appraisers, aro all
sent to tlie collector’s office. Upon the data
they furnish, the liquidating clerk of the coL
loetor’s office «liquidates” the entries, and
his correctness is tested by the liquidating
clerk of tho naval office. Whatever changes
upon the value, and consequently upon tho
duties originally ascertained on the entries of
the importer, occur through difference in
weight, measurement, gauging, or the exami
nations of the appraisers’ department, are noted
upon the entries when liquidated. If an excess
of value and duty is found the importer is
called upon to pay it. If a deficiency is dis
covered, it is refunded to him. If tho entry is
found to have been originally correct, it is so
endorsed, and no further action is taken
upon it.
Under existiug laws a credit of three years
is allowed upon all goods imported which are
loft under the charge of tho Government.
This is called tho warehouse system. The
importer who desires to avail himsolf of this pri
vilege, makes a “warehouse” instead of a
“cash” entry. He need not’ then pay tho
duties upon his whole invoice at once, hut he
places his goods in warehouses which are under
tlje supervision of the Government, and pays
the duties upon each package as he desires to
withdraw it. Goods may be transported in
“bond,” as it is called, between any of the
ports of the country, they remaining in the
meanwhile under the control of the custom
hbuse officers, and the importer, or the party
purchasing of him, not paying the duties
until he actually obtains possession of the
g^oda.
•Several accounts are kept, both in the col
lector’s and in the naval office, showing tho
amount of money received, and these are dally
compared with the statements of the cashier.
Various other business is done under the di
rection of the authorities of the Custom House—
slick as the enrolment and licensing of ves
sels, tho collection of a marine hospital
tax, the issue of protections to seamon, tho
examination of steamboats, Stc. All the trans
actions are reported, in various shapes, and
with great minuteness, to the Treasury Depart
ment at Washington, which exercises a rigid
sijporvislon over all the custom houses of the
country.
The first collector of this port, after the
adoption of the Constitution, was Sharp De
lany. He was appointed by General Wash
[kotos, and it may not he uninteresting to our
“American” friends who love to talk of the Fa
ther of his Country putting « none but Ameri
cans on guard,” to know that he was by birth
an Irishman. Hlb successors have been Gen.
Peter Muiioendero, Gon. John Steele,
Jalmes N. Barker, Geoeoe Wolf, Jonathan
Roberts, Calvin Blythe!, Tiios. S. Smith,
Henry Horn, James Paok, William D. Lewis
Charles Brown, and tho present incumbent,
Josepu B. Baker.
THE LEDGER’S VIEWS,
Great Interest is deservedly attached to tho
views of the Public Ledger. From yester
day’s issuo we extract the following flank sum
mary of the late elections:
The Late Elections. —lt is curious to note
the different reasons given for tho result of the
late elections in the Southern and Westorn
sections. Every newspaper, which lias parti
san predilections of any kind, assigns that
cause which is least damaging to its own set
of opinions.
The most striking fact in tlieso elections is
that such old Whig States as Kentucky and
North Carolina should have gono for the Demo
crats by increased majorities. One of our par
tisan cotemporaries attributes this to the aban
donment of old Whig issues. It argues that
if the ancient banner of that party had been
unitlirled, if tho cry of a tariff lor protection
had been raised, tho time-worn veterans who
followed Clay in many desparato assaults
wdnld have rallied to tho onset again, and the
old Strongholds of Whlggory been recovered.
Blit as tins was not dono, it says, as new and
unpopular issues wero presented, the Dcmo
critio party not only boat off the track, but has
utiorly ruined, all opposition.
The truth is, that tho Whig party, technically
considered, has served its turn, has had its day,,
ang exists really only as a fossil. It arose out
of ithe United States Bank controversy, was
sustained afterward by the struggle to maintain
a tariff for protection, and was kept alive, after
these issues had been decided, by the personal
tularity of Its leaders, especially Henry Clay,
h the death of the great Kentucky orator,
last breath of life departed also from the
ig party. New organizations arose because
new principles had come into the field, and on
thtse newfisues even old party leaders differed
and separated in anger. Tims we see, at the
.South, a son of tho Ashland sage, originally an
enthusiastic Whig himsolf, canvassing for Con
gress on tho Democratic side, and maintaining,
if his father was alive, that that’ eloquent and
patriotic statesman would bo with him on the
cpnstitutionol issues now at stake. Thus we
see, at tho North, men who were formerly un
compromising Domocrats now bitterly hostile
to the Democratic party, on tho pretence, right
or wrong, that it has deserted its ancient faith
and set up new and false idols, Of course, it
would bo not only impertinent, but out of place,
for us to decide between these various asser
tions. Our business lies with facts, not with
theories.
It is a fact which is indisputable, therefore,
that tho party, at the South, which calls itself
Democratic, has no national party left there to
contend against; and this is tho secret of its
victory. Tho Whig issues havo been decided,
yoars ago, and no longer havo a hold on any
largo number of citizons. The agitation in
favor of an extension of the term for naturali
zation has also been left in a minority. Right
or wrong, the people have voted down a na
tional bank, a tariff for protection, and the ex
clusion of aliens from voting. For tho pres
ent, these issues are practically out of the field.
They may revive agaiu, at some future time,
or they may not; but for existing purposes,
they have lost tlieir power as great national
political watchwords. Wise men accept things
as they find them. They do not waste their
life on futile efforts to restore dead heroes;
but, on the contrary, seek fresh and living
onos, with which to meet their foes. A popu
lar cry is the hero for a party. The philoso
phy of the late elections, therefore, is that the
party at the South, which calls itself Demo
cratic, has a national policy, while the opposi
tion there has not.
This is not tho place to discuss whether that
policy is good or bad, or whether the opposi
tion, at the North, which has a different policy
from tho Southern opposition, has a vital one.
These questions, indoed, aro easy of solution
enough, but are not germane to our present
inquiry.
COMMUNICATIONS.
Editor Press : Your admirable, just, philo
sophic, and woll-sustained “ leader” on our “ Past.
Prosent, and Future,” in the Pbeas of Saturday,
the 15th instant, prompts me to offer a few remarks
relative to one or two of the more salient points
therein. The atrocitios perpetrated by the Cas
tilian and Lusitanian advonturers aro emblazoned
on the historic page—indisputably—and, ergo, re
cognised by all nations. The result of their tyran
ny is exemplified by the rotributional justice of the
Almighty nowhore more emphatically than in the
degraded and polluted dons of courtly intrigue in
Madrid and Lisbon, than in the blighting influence
almost approaching, if not surpassing, the dark,
gloomy, revolting, and dissolute relapse of the Ro
man Empire, which pervades the Spaniards and
Portuguese of the present day. Your remarks, sir,
on the Anglo-Saxon race, are more congenial and
welcome to tho reflectent mind, because they carry
with them an amount of virtue, energy, and hero
ism. Carlyle has truly said, somowhoro, “ that no
vessel ever freighted a nobler cargo than the
Mayflower." She bore with her ovor the stormy
billows of the Atiantio—-navigation yet young and
perilous—a band of glorious pioneers, full of hope,
courage, and virtue —a band of Men who have
left their names Inscribed on the world's history
—a band of Men, everywhere telling us that
Wo can make our live* sublime,
And departing, leave behind us footprints on the Bauds of
Time.”
They carried with them and nobly asserted, os
you have jußtly said, the “ right of private judg
ment in matters of rcltgton”-~a right which has
been instrumental in liberating religion from State
control, thus making it froo from the obnoxious
and withering supports of Cnbinots and oaprioious
governments.
~ Your remarks on the slave question I chcorfully
endorse. This question is, perhaps, tho most com
plicated of tho ago Let us hope, as you observed,
that tho bund of God is at work in eliminating tho
negro from the dark and over-shadowing clouds
whiehBttrrauudhim,and thatono day ho will “stand
redeemed) regenerated!, and disenthralled,” by tho
irresistible genius of tho Amor can people; that
the North and South—tho East and West-will
join hand in hand, and that the fedoral flag will
Jtyatover tho Qs{>letQ of poaocand hap-,
pinoss, in tho noble effort to u&qst them In return
ing to LUpjrU - In &mplusjou> air, allow mo to touch
that nil-important, ’question—education. Wo bavo
hero set aa axaltod and omlurablo monument from
which Europo may draw instruotivo lessons. Tho
fruits of our educational system aro apparent evory
whoro around us, but more ospooiully in tho en
lightened, intelligent, active, and independent ar
tisans, mechanics,andhibororsofourcountry. Can
say the same of Europo < Echo answers No!
The veteran Brougham told us rooontly, that the
“schools 11 in Europe “languish while the guild
flourish;" and why do sohoola languish? because
aristocratic exclusiveness and oligarchic clique
dread the progress of tho musses, and ex-officio y
frustrate any association having for its object the
freo development of tho peoplo.
Wishing Tins Press God-speod, I remain yours,
A Constant Reader.
[For tho Press.]
Woman.—Man hath fleece about him, which
enables him to bear the bufferings of tho storm ;
but woman, when young, lovely, and poor , is as a
shorn lamb, for which the wind has not been tem
pered.
A Bacuelob.—A man who passes through lifo
without marrying is like a fair mansion loft by the
builder unfinished. The half that is finished runs
to docay from neglect, or becomes at best but a
sorry tenement, wanting tho addition of that
which makes tho whole useful.
Remarks o.v Fits.— For a fit of passion walk
out in the opon air; you may speak your mind to
the winds without hurting any one or proclaiming
yourself to bo a simpleton. For a fit of idleness,
count the tickings of a clock. Do this for one hour
and you will bo glad to pull off your coat tho next
and work like a negro.
For a fit of extravagance and folly, go to the
work-house or speak with the ragged and wretched
inmates of a jail, and you will be convinced,
Who makes his bed of brier and thorn
Must be content to lie forlorn.
For ft fit of ambition , go into the church-yard
and read the grave-stones. They will tell you tho
end of ambition. Tho grave will soon bo your bed
chamber, the earth your pillow, corruption your
father, and tho worm your mother and sister.
To Farmers.—Tho footof tho owner is tbe besl
manure for land.
ConßECTiojf.—T. Jefferson's sixth rule was, We
never repent of eating too tittle— not too much-
(For The Press.]
Messrs. Editors: I.beg to call your attention
to the foot of our squares being thronged, from
morning till night, with indecent females. A
respectable person cannot walk through them with
out being disgusted by such human degradation.
CAnnot this be stopped)? or is it, to the disgrace
of Philadelphia, to continue 1
Yours, respectfully, H. J. If.
THE COURTS .
Court op Quarter Sessions—Judge Conrad.—
Mary and Marin'Baker were oharged with tbe
larceny of a shawl, dresses, and various articles of
clothing, property of Melissa Still. The facts, as
shown by the prosecution, wore that the defendants
went to board with a Mrs. Maul on Thursday, and
left on Saturday without having paid their board,
and having stolen tho above articles. A portion of
the foods wore found on their persons. Daniel
Dougherty, Esq., who appeared for the defendants,
oross-oxaralned one of tno witnesses for the Com
monwealth, but subsequently decided to withdraw
his plea of “not guilty,” and substitute aplcaof
“guilty.” Tho prosecution abandoned tho case
against Marla Baker, tho daughter, and the mother
was sentenced to six months’imprisonment.
Geo. Shnuger, dfiarged with passing counterfeit
money, upon being called did not appear. John
Loathorby, who was tho bail, had his recognijanco
forfeited.
Henry Monaghan, a police offioor, charged with
passing acountorfcit note on Henry V. Kussel, did
not appoar. Jumcs McQuailo, Monaghan’s bail,
allowed his recognizance to bo forfeited.
SENTENCES,
Joseph Wcst was sontonccd to fourth months’ im
prisonment for the larcony of a shoulder of pork.
Patrick Mulrino was sontonood to eight months’
imprisonment for the larceny of tools.
William Shiiue, colored, was sentenced to ono
year’s imprisonment for tho larceny of a silver
watch.
Rosanna. Casey was sentenced to ono year’s im
prisonment for tne larceny of thirty-throe yards ol
checks.
Tiie Citizenship of Colored Men in
Maine.— K majority of tho Supremo Court of
Maine have, in response to a resolution of tho Leg
islature, united in nu opinion affirming tho right
of negroes to vote in elections, under the State
Constitution : Ist, Because negroes were bltlsens
of Massachusetts (from whoso territory Maine was
formed) at the date of tho adoption of the federal
constitution. 2d,. Because (independent of that
decision) such was the dear intention of the framers
of the State Constitution, ea ‘manifested in a prac
tice of forty years under it, and & similar practice
of the same period under that of MaseaoWetU,
taken in connection with the fact, thaVin the Con
vention for the formation of that Constitution a
direct proposition to exclude negroes from the pri
vileges of the elective franchise was negatived.
Judges Appleton and Davis' present 'separate
opinions, replying at length to Judge Taney’s
positions. Judge Hathaway alone dissents from
lh# majority, The opinions are pot yet printed,.
[ For The Press,’
THE IRON WORKS OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Beginning at Pittsburgh.
As there are comparatively but few of our peo
plo who are at all .conversant with the great
mineral wealth and productive enterprise of
Pennsylvania, and, I may add, fewer still—if
indeed there are any—who have any adequate
conception of tho illimitable extent of this latent
wealth, and the immense capital of men and
moans which must ultimately become invested in
its production—l propose, in connection with my
other labors for The Press, to lay boforo its
rcadora, from timo to time, in a series of articles
ulrcody commenced, such reliable statistics and
information from every seotion of our State, and
even beyond it, ub the most assiduous diligence
and industry can possibly procure. To accomplish
this task with satisfaction to the loader, justice
to the noble old Keystone and ber resources,
and with credit to the enterprising and already
widely circulating journal for which it is under
taken, tho writer hopes to avail himself of the ad
vontagesof an extensive correspondence with the
friondsof The Press throughout tho State; and
in his occasional flights to her most Important lo
calities, whether contiguous or remote, for per
sonal observation, whether amid the din and rattle
of her workshops, tho belohing flames and deafen
ing thunders of her furnaces, or emboweled within
her subterraneous caverns, amid the light-excluded
colliers, he hopes to direct his labors with an eye
single to tho more perfect development and more
goneral diffusion of that class ol practical knowl
edge of tho great physical rosource3 of our oountry,
and the intimate relation they sustain to the pre
sent interests and future destiny of our race.
It is paying Pennsylvania no undeserved mark
of attention that the intelligent press all over our
country speak in the most flattering terms of her
great mineral and manufacturing in connexion
with her agricultural resources.
Far in the distant past, covered beneath the un
raveled ages of antiquity, tho discovery and manu
facture ofiron is spoken of in Saored history, in
connexion with tho name #f Tubal Cain.
Though as the history ol iron forms no part of
my present design—which in itself, however, affords
ample material for an article of peouliar interest,
and shall claim our attention at some future time —
I will at onco pass from its discovery, and, at the
risk of announcing a fact with which the reader Is
already familiar, state that, next to England, the
Unitod States produce and consume more iron than
any other nation in the world. This superiority on
the part of England, however, can necessarily be
of but short continuance, as a slight glanoe at the
figures will serve to illustrate.
In tho year 1740, only 117 years ago, the whole
iron production of England was made froin fifty
nine furnaces, averaging 249 tons each, or a value
of 14,691 tons in all. From the year 1740, during
an ensuing period of 115 years, it has been ascer
tained by oaroful calculation that tho production
of iron had increased seventeen fold; so that we
find that the produefon and consumption ef iron
on a large scale is of comparatively recent date
oven in England, whioh fact Is of course attribu
table to the immense impetus given to the demand
for this mos* useful of metals, by the introduction
of steam as a motive power, and the consequent
multiplication of railroads in nearly all parts ol
tho world.
In accordance with what has been already stated,
the manufacture of iron in England, in the year
1855, amounted to upwards of three and a half mil
lions of tons, whilst in the United States thero were
manufactured in the foilcWing year justonomillion
tons—a statement which' I think will easily bear
the construction, when we consider the unequal
length of the race already run between the two
countries, that the day Is not far in tho future
whon the manufacture of iron in this country will
greatly exceed that of England.
But whon we come to understand, that out of the
ono million tons manufactured in this oountry, in
1856, three hundred and eighty thousand tons, or
about thirty-eight por cent, of the whole amount,
was produoed in the Btato of Pennsylvania, she
need have no stronger vindication of hor claim to
the title of the iron State of the Union than i« here
afforded. This amount of iron produced within the
Unfits of our own State, in a single year, and whioh
amount, oven largo as it is, is but tho beginning of
the broad destiny daily opening up before her in
that direction, is actually larger than the pro
duction of iron in any nation of Europo, excepting
England, Franoo, and Prussia.
But to direct our attention more exclusively to
tho locality designated at tho hood of this article,
1 it Is proper to remark, first, that, gre it m the nomi
nal resources of Pittsburgh ami her surroundings
undoubtedly aro, especially in the urtiolcs of coal
and Iron, yet, from somo cause or other, the ore of
the latter is mainly minod and converted into pig
iron at distances more or less remote from her
works.
The regions from whcnco she draws hor supplies
mainly ure, first, what is called the Allegheny re
gion; also tho Anthracito region, which is east of
tho Alleghenies; the Hangiug-Rock region, about
three hundred and fifty miles from P fctsburgh, on
tho Ohio river; also, from Tennessee and the region
of the Juuiata, together with limited supplies from
tho Monongahela seotion of country, Missouri, and
other sources. From this it will be understood that
smelting furnaces form no part of the Pittsburgh
iron works, for tho reason that converting the ore
into pig iron in regions whero fuel can be obtained
at moderate cost, can always be performed to much
greater advantage at the mines, from tho fact that
it obviates all unnecessary transportation of super
fluous weight. Yet, in view of ail this importation
of pig metal by tho Pittsbugh is ena
bled, by the extrome cheapness and excellence of
her fuel, to send back hor manufactured bar iron
and easting, fully competing in cheapness with tho
local mills and foundries in the very regioos from
whioh she draws horsupplies, if we except the East.
Unquestionably the presont cost of manufacturing
would be greatly reduced by her operators were
they enabled to dig their supplies of ore nearer
home, and which great desideratum she has now
every prospect of speedily realising.
Indeed, from discoveries recently made, there
are slumbering millions scattered all over that
region of Pennsylvania, simply awaiting the strong
arm and skilful hand of enterprise to pluok the
ripened fruit.
Without entering upon the comparative cost of
the production of iron in Pittsburgh—its peculiar
qualities, «feo.—a subject which in itself might well
nigh transcend tbe limits of a single article, I will
simply sum up the present with a hasty glance at
the various classes of her iron works, without pre
tending to review their gradual development
through tho last quarter of a century, and the un
rivalled success which has marked their progress.
Pittsburgh has now in operation—or at least will
have when cool weather commences—twenty-five
iron and steel rolling mills, owned by twenty firms,
who own in connection with these, 262 puddling
furnaces, 165 heating furnaces, 418 nail, spike, and
rivet machines, and 16 converting furnooes, and
consume, in the aggregate, pig iron, blooms, cake,
coal, clay, oil, greaso, do., amounting to $6,243,-
820 60 annually.
Adding to this annual expense the wages of 4,623
hands, which is estimated at $2,366,020, or an
average of $5ll 79 a year to each laborer, together
with the capital in the ground, buildings, and ma
chinery employed in tho proseoution of the busi
ness, whioh is valued at $3,280,000, and wo havo
the aggregate expenso attending the carrying on
of the 25 mills, which amounts to the enormous,
sum of $11,889,840 60, or eleven millions eight
hundred and eighty-nine thousand eight hundred
and forty dollars and sixty cents.
That the abovo is an inside estimate may be in
ferred from tho fact that a single one of their num
ber—located at Brownstown, some flvo miles from
the centre of Pittsburgh proper, and which I had
the pleasure of examining during my recent visit
to that city—owned and conducted by Messrs.
Jones A Lauth, stated, in answer to my inquiries,
that they gave uniform employment to three hun
dred hands, and that two millions of dollars a year
were required to carry on the business of tho
establishment.
That these extrusive investments aro inado to
pay handsomely may also bo inferred from the
rapidity with which these operators have leaped
from moderate oiroumstanccs into princely affluence,
with scarcely an exception. In addition to tho
rolling mills, tho foundry business hero is also vory
extensive. Sixteen of tho latter aro now iu suc
cessful operation, with u yearly capacity in tho
aggregate of 44,390 tons, and from whioh aro daily
emerging articles of almost every description and
bulk, from h 15,009 pound cannon to instruments
no largor than a lady’s bodkin Graybnard.
PERSONAL.
Ex-Governor Clark has removed from his
residence in Canandaigua, and has opened a law
offioo in Wall street, Hew York.
Judge Hyatt, United States Consul at Amoy,
China, has roceutly arrived, upon leave of absence,
in New York.
Gen. Joseph Lane has just been elected, for
tho fourth time, a dologate to Congress from Ore
gon Territory. He was first oleoteu In ’sl> «oo u
in ’63, third in ’65, and fourth in ’57.
The news of the death of Lablacho, is au
thoritatively contradicted. LaWaohe is at this mo-‘
ment at Kissiugon, with his daughter, Mme. Sin
gor, and ho has derived much benefit from the
’"onFriday last, Mr. Anthony Christy,keeper
of tho Christiana light-house, celebrated his hun
drM? Bottk, late Secretary of State to
General Walker, says that ho oan from by docu
mentary evidence that no loss than 5,700 filibusters
hare found their gtavei in Niowegus.
TWO CENTS.
GENERAL NEWS.
Jacob Geiger, a German, was beaten to
death near Mount Pleasant, Ohio, on Thursday
evening, by & fellow-countryman, with whom he
was ridiDg, named Ludwig Breideabaugh. Ho was
arrested and takon before Esquire Joseph, of Mill*
creek township, who, after examining into the case,
refused to reooivobail, andorderedhiscommitment
the county jail. Breidenbnugh’s wife fainted
when he was arrested, and some fears were enter*
tained for her life, as she is soon to become again a
mother. Breideabaugh declares, in extenuation of
h»8 crime, that Geiger drew a knifo upon him in
tho wagon, at the commencement of the disagree*
rnent.
Tho Bridgeton, Barbadoes, correspondent of
the Now York Ht*ald x writing on the Ist in
stant, says: Quito a limited quantity of bread
stuffs from tho United State 3 has arrivod du
ring the last fortnight. By this means the
stock of flour, 4c., has been greatly reduced,
which has caused an advance in the prices of those
articles. Lumber and shingles arc also in fair re*
quest, as well os other building materials. The
weather is beautiful, with abundance of rain, but
none to excess. The growing crops will exceed any
previous year’s yield. The export of sugar and
molasses has already reached 49,000 hhda.; very
little of either from last crop on hand.
The St. John Courier is glad to state that tho
prospectof a good harvest in Newfoundland has
now become reosonablycertain. Potatoes look well
and healthy, Oats and barley are nowin the ear,
and there is a good spread of turnips - where they
havo escaped the fly. The same paper learns, by
letter from Labrador, that the salmon fishery is a
total failure. Fisbmaking not commenced on ac
count of the intensely warm weather. The captain
of tho British brig Atalanta reports the raging of
the small pox at Blanc Sablou, Forteau, and iiauce
a Loua, and that two Jersey captains had died of
At the session of the Grand Encampment,
I. 0. of 0. F., held on Thursday, in Paterson, N.
J. the following named gentlemen were elected
officers for the ensuing year: Grand Patriarch,
JosephL. Lamb, of Pemberton; Grand M. E- H
P., Andrew Vreeland, of Paterson; Grand Senior
Warden, John H. Horn, of Lambertville; Grand
Junior do., John L. Wooden, Jersey City; Grand
Soribe, James M. Cassedy, of Camden; Grand
Treasurer, A. P. Provost, pi Newark; Grand Re
presentative, Isaao M. Tucker, of Newark.
The Haverhill, Mass., Gazette says that Mr.
George H Hoyt baa in bis possession & pitcher
said to have been once owned and used by Wash
ington. It is very large, and haa imprinted on it
several Masonic emblems, and “1710” in large
figures, probably the year in which It was made.
It has been for a number of years in the possession*
of a Masonic Lodge in Portsmouth.
Judge Gilchrist, of N. H., Judge Rice, of
Augusta, and James Hayward, of Boston, referees
in the case of Sewell, Merrill, and others, against
the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad, involving
the rights of parties to the water front on the har
bor siao of the track near Fish Point, have award
ed the plaintiff $6,000 damages.
It is a fact not generally known, that the
first type made in America .vere manufactured by
Albert Buel. at Middlesex county,
Conn., in 1769, and were first used by him in print
ing a memorial to the Genera! Assembly, praying
for aid to establish a type-foundry.
At the Temperance Convention in Portland,
Maine, on Wednesday, Rev. Mr. Bartlett, of Pro
vincetown, said be was formerly a Democrat. He
then preached in favor of that party, and singu
larly, he never heard any complaint of his preach
ing politics then. He labored for that party up to
the election of Polk.
• Hon. James Madison Porter, of Pennsyl
vania, who has filled many able stations in the
oountry, among others that of Secretary of War
in the United States Cabinet, has accepted an in
vitation to deliver the address before the State
Agricultural Society, at the fair at New Brunswick,
N. J., next month.
Suicides are getting to be quite prevalent In
Cincinnati, Ohio. On Thursday evening, Mrs.
Eliza Ssundors, residing in that city, aged thirty
nine years, committed suicide by shooting herself
with a pistol, while lying on her bed suffering ex
, oruciatmgly from bone scrofula, with which she
had been afflicted during six years.
On Tuesday evening last Mr. Georgo IY.
Stone, of West Dedham, Mass., died from the ef
fects of hydrophobia. He was bitten in the thumb
by a in Mill Village, on the 3d day of July.
At tho time he was bitten the dog was not sup
posed to be rabid. _ ,
On Saturday morning a locomotive ran off
the traek near Coboas, N. Y., killing the engineer,
Josonh Horton. Tho accident was caused by the
breaking of the forward truok wheel. The de
ceased is a married man and leaves a wife and
child. The fireman was also severely injured.
A correspondent of The Congregational
Journal says that the Congregational Church in
Sholburno, N. H., is reduces to three femalo mem
bers. He also gives a list of about twenty chu> oh.es
in other places which are not much better off.
Officer Carpenter, of Dubuque* lowa, re
cently hrrosted-'two counterfeiters at Prairie du
Chicn: Ho placed them on board of a steamboat,
under guard. Tho rogues seized a favorable op
portunity and jumped overboard- They were both
drowned.
The Governor of Georgia has offered a re
ward of $lOO for the apprehension of Ivory Fortner,
who killed Fountain Show, in Lumpkin county, in
Dcoombor, 1856.
Franklin Dexter, who was U* S. District At
torney for Massachusetts under President Taylor,
died in Beverly, Mass., on Friday. He was 63
years of age.
The Baltimore Sun states that the Holliday
street Gas Works exploded on Sunday afternoon
with a tremendous report. No one was hurt, and
the loss was not over $5OO.
A North American Temperance Convention
is to be held at Chicago on the 10th of November
next. It# object is to secure unity of action among
all tcmpcr&nce organizations.
A freight train on the railroad near Colum
bia, S. C., on’Wednesday last fell through the
Saluda Bridge, and Mr. Dobbins and Mr. Morri
son, firemen, were killed—the engineer escaped.
J. M. Ater, a mail rider, has been arrested
at Oxford, Miss., and committed to prison in default
of $3,000, lor robbing the poaches intrusted to his
care.
A case of yellow fever occurred lately at St.
Mary’s, Fla. A boarding-house keeper died of
the disease, which he contracted from the crew of
a Spanish ship.
On the evening of the 10th a little son of
Mrs. Ellis, of Zanesville, Ohio. And his companion,
son of Mr. Dietrich of that place, were drowned
while bathing.
New dour was offered in the Cincinnati mar*
ket on Saturday, at $5 50 for the fore part of Sep
tember. ,
The Disaster on Long Island Sound—A Sad
Scene.
[Fromthe New Fork Times, August 17.]
The young lady referred to as Miss Gordon [in
“The Press” account of the accident on Monday]
was Miss Louisa Robinson, a stop-daughter of Mr.
George Gordon, of No. 37 Catharine street, and
was a little over twenty-four years of age. She
was a member of the Allen street Presbyterian
Church, and was a most accomplished and oeauti
ful young lady. She was the principal soprano
singer in the choir of the Episcopal Church in
Jersey City, and has left a large circle of friends
arid acquaintances, by whom sne was held in the
highest esteem. This family have lost five out of
seven children, and are in the greatest affliction at
this lost and heaviest bereavement
The church being closed Miss Robinson was
employing her vacation in visiting her friends.
She hod just returned from a week’s sojourn at
Troy, and wasgoing to sec her sister at New London.
Captain Smith being an acquaintance of Mr. Gor
don’s, (who by the way is a native of New London,
and very well known there,) preferred to intrust
his daughter to Captain Smith’s keeping, and for
the reason, also, that she would arrive at a season
able hour in the morning to meet her friends. Mr.
Gordon is employed in the warehouse department
of the custom-house. The first intimation he had
that his daughter was lost was a messenger calling
at his place of business, and informing him that
thero had been an accident on the Sound—that a
propeller bad been run down, and many lives lost.
On learning that it was a New London propeller,
the startling thought occurred to him that bis
daughter wis drowned, and bo hastened down to
the Metropolis to learn the facts. Here he met
Captain Smith, who was giving his statement of
tho events. Mr. Gordon walked into the cabin of
the Metropolis, and approaohed with an agitated
manner. “Howdo you do, Mr. Gordon?’’ said
the Captain, extending his hand, and at the same
time averting his face. The old gentleman took
tho proffered nand, and said in a tremulous voice:
“ I came to ask abont my daughter—isshe alive or
not?" “She is gone,” said the Captain. “Oh!
mV God!” he exclaimed, as he burst into tears.
There were no dry eyes in that cabin.
Afterwards tho Captain jrnid to our reporter;
“She was a beautiful girl, a noble woman. Mr.
Gordon gavo her into my charge only yesterday
afternoon, to take her to her friend* to New Lon
don, but now she has gone with my children.”
Tho sceno at the house of .Mr. Gordon, when the
sod intelligence reached tho bereaved mother, was
most affecting. This daughter, so Maidenly snatch
ed away, was tho prido of the family circle, and
was greatly beloved The mother was inconsolable,
and gavo vent to her grief in most bitter crios and
lamentations; tho father also wept like »child,
»ud sold it was the greatest affliction that be had
ever suffered.
No tomicdiato preparations wul be mad tor the
funeral, us Mr. Gordon is in hopes that, by the
efforts of Mr. E. If. Rockwell, tho agent, who has
"one to Now Loudou for tho j)urj>oso, arrangements
will bo soon made to ascertain tho position of the
wreck, and that tho bodies of tho lost will then be
discovered. It is understood a diving bell will bo
employed for this purpose.
Tobacco Raising in New England.
Tho Springfield (Moss.).Rc»w6/»’mu says that tho
tobacco crop in that region looks thrifty. It has
boon pronosed to substitute tobacco for onions in
this neighborhood, till tho maggot shall die out.
The onion orop is one of the most valuable In New
bury, Danvers, and some other townsin thiscounty;
but for a half dozen years or so it has not been re
liable on account of tho maggot devonrer. . For
merly the worms cut down the onions early to the
season, but the maggot enters the vegetable and
continues the destruction |till winter and frosts.-
It U found that these worms have a run of a few
years, and then pass away; and the onion crop,
now so uncertain, may be restored hereafter; -In
the mean time tobacco, suited to just ?aah lands,
could be substituted, and the prices are such as to
enoourage the production. In Connecticut &nd in
Central and Western Massachusetts, H Is found to
be a profitable orop. The leaf is not so much
needed for the strength of the plant as for wrap,
pets of oigari, for which purpose H can be m well
grown in this State as id Maryland or Virginia
Would it not be well for some of our Oldtown far
k rive Hanext season l—Nwhuryport
(Mow.) Hera#, 4xg%'\ Q,
NOTH?* TO 'mitWPOWlWim, ;
Correspondent! for “TaxFMaa” will please bear is
mind the following rules: *
Every eamaualeatis* mast be accompanied by the
name of the writer. In ctier to insure correctness of
the typography, bat one tide of a sheet should be
written upon.
We shall bo greatly obliged to gentlemen in Pennsyl
vania aad other gfetes for contribution* the cur
rent news of the day in their partienlar localities,'the
resources of the surrounding country, the Increase of
population, and any information that will be interesting
to the general reader.
THE PULPIT.
TRUE AND FALSE CHRISTIANITY.
[For The Press ]
This was the subject of a sermon preached on
last Sabbath afternoon in the First Independent
Chureh of this city, located at Broad and George
Streets, by the pastor. Rev. John Chambers.
The text of Scripture upon which this discourse
was founded, as had been previously announced, is
contained in the sixth chapter of Luke, from the
32d to tho 36th verse inclusive* and reads as.
follows:
u For if yc love them which loro you, what thank
havo ye ? for sinners also love .those that love
them. And if ye do good to them which do good
to you, what tlumk have ye? for sinner* also do
even the same. And if ye lend to them of-whom
you hope to receive, what thank have ye ? for sin
ners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend,
hoping for nothing again; and your reward
shall be great, ye shall be the children of the
Highest for He is kind unto the unthankful and
to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as tout
Father also is merciful. ”
Mr. Chambers’s wonted style of commencing his’
discourses, as many of our readers are probably
aware, Is to launch out boldly into his theme frum
the beginning, without prelade or circumlocution.
And in strict accordance with this rule, his very
first remark was eminently ominous of the tone of
what was to follow.
Said the speaker: “A professed friend is often-.
times the deadliest enemy.” The reason for this
was, that the opportunities for doing harm were
greatly increased by the natural claims of friend
ship, even though it might be bat the merest out
ward pretence. From an opponent we naturally
expected opposition, and were prepared for it.
Nor was this sad state of things merely confined
to individuals or communities; the whole Church
had suffered vastly from this same insincerity.
Christianity, in spirit, had been in the world from
the beginning—not merely for the last eighteen.
hundred years; yet, notwithstanding its early in
fusion into the world, and the marvellous confirma
tions it had received on Sinai and Calvary, through
the patriarchs, prophets, and the incarnate Son of
God, from that day to this, yet the fact was too
evident to admit of a doubt, that the greatest and
most effectual opposition that the Church was now
receiving, at the hands of men, was from those
professing to be her friend*.
Religion itself carried not within it the elements
that could warrant its rejection at the hands of any
man; and in confirmation of this, it was asserted,
that no intelligent being on the face of Heaven’s
footstool could examine the Bible as a whole. care
fully, earnestly, honestly, and not pronounce it
eminently just and fair throughout.
The very lineaments of its doctrines and morality
reflected the image of its divine Author, and left us
with no uncertain impressions of what constitutes
our duty to God and to our fellow-men.
The spirit of benevolence was the great distin
guishing feature of the Bible, and selfishness was
diametrically its opposite. The man-made principle
of reciprocity was entirely excluded from its pages,
and herein might be found the great distinguishing
difference between a true Christian and one falsely
so called.
This difference was as plain and as clear as a sun
beam, and was everywhere being made apparent in
the actions of her (Christianity’s) professed votaries.
It was not in the iwnmtng of a name that this
difference consisted, as the mere giving of names
was a matter of little essential importance. Tbe
first name ever given to the followers of Christ had
been applied to them in derision by His opponents
in an obscure town in Judea
. He bad no objection to denominational terms,
however, for he was glad to know and admit that
the names of not a few of them were justly con
nected with some of the most glorious advance
ments which the Church has ever made. Yea tbe
mere naming of Christians, of whatever sect, waa
entirely of human origin; saints, believers, fol
lowers, 4c., had been the usual appellations for
which we have any Biblical authority.
The Bible, taken as a whole, would never lead
men to different conclusions upon any really essen
tial points; it was the mere abstractions from it
that men had tortured into constructions, which
it bad never been designed to ieaeh.
On entering more minutely upon the manifest
difference existing between professed Christians,
the speaker quoted the language of the Saviour,
wherein is expressed that withering contrast be
tween a true child of God and a pretending Pha
risee.
The “fruits of the tree” now engaged his atten
tion. “By their works ye shall know them” was
made the touchstono of the ordeal sow about to be
submitted. Charity , magnanimous and open
hearted, was here raised as the standard, and
selfishness was dealt with, with .all the unsparing
severity of a bold soldier of the Cross, who knowing
his duty, glories in the privilege of doing it fear
lessly, without let or hindrance from any source.
The man, it was<sald, who did good unto others
from no higher motive than to receive as much in
return, was no better than the merest barbarian,
be his professions what they may. The Saviour'*
ban rested upon those who “lead to receive as
much again,” yet he would ask were there not
multitudes of professed Christians of this kind all
over onx land ? “If I lead to this man now to save
him from destruction, will I get it all back ?” was
a motto whioh the speaker was sorry to say was not
merely confined to “ publicans and sinners.”
“ Love your enemies” was the divine command 7
yet objections were daily being raised to this, ver
bally and practically, by. members of the Church,
saying “It can’t be done, it's contrary to nature.”
That it was contrary to nature might be true; but
he would ask what Und of nature J a divine na
ture or a devilish nature? Christianity, to he
what it professes, must he practical, even as the
doings of Christ himself were practical. He went
about doing good from the rising of the sun to the
going down of the same, and we most emulate his
example by following it, if we would deserve the
name of Christian—a requisition from which there
could be no possibility of esefpe.
At this point the speaker referred to that inimi
table exposition of charity contained in % thir
teenth chapter of St. Paul’s first epistle to the
Corinthians, characterizing it as one of the most
magnificent and godlike inspirations ever penned
by the hand ot Paul. That the sentiments of this
chapter of Scripture might be read by, and deeply
engraven in, the heart of every human being, was
the earnest desire of the speaker’s heart, and tho
fervent prayer of his inmost soul. The sentiment
it breathed was that of love—pure, holy, disinter
ested love to our ‘fellow-creatures, and for which
God was constantly giving us his example. He
suffers his sun to shine upon the blasphemer and
the ungodly, as he did upon the righteous of his
own household of faith. Not only were we re
quired to love and do good to all, but also to “ re
turn good for evil.”
As God had bestowed freely upon us, so it was
our duty os Christian men freely to lend to others.
But upon what terms are we to lead? Tiro ptr
cent . a month ? “ God Almighty pity you, my
brother, if that's your Christian benevolence,”
was the speaker’s earnest ejaculation.
He was afraid that there was much of this vam-
pire Christianity—a Christianity(?) which might
bo as efficiency practised by the vilest of God’s
enemies as by these most pious pretender?
This kind of charity was always to be had. pro
vided the premiums attached were Urge enough—
i. e., the largest to be obtained—and the securities
were deemed amply satisfactory. Should, how
ever, these essential preliminaries not come exactly
up to the mark, the distressed brother will be sent
away with a pharisaical “ I’m sorry for you !”
This species of “land shark” Christianity was
reviewed at some length, during which the con
scientious “corns” of most of his hearers were
doubtless more or less pinched by the pressure of
truth, pot only pungent, but pretty thickly laid
cn.
Christian benevolence, in the main, had got to be
entirely too much or a system of “ loss and gain”
calculation. Not that Christianity exacted from
any man a ruinous liberality—it did no such thing;
what it required was that men should live up to
this principle, to the extent of their reasonable
abilities.
There were many ways in which charity could
bo employed with incalculable advantage to suffer
ing and unfortunate humanity, that were too gen
erally overlooked. Christianity demanded a mag
nanimous charity. The mau who would pass a
brother in the street without shaking his hand,
simply from the fear of having his respectability
tainted because the brother happened to be poor
and illy clad, was a contemptible coward, and had
bnt little genuine respectability tq lose at be3t.
To be Christiana really —not merely in name—we
must bo known by our works. Thero could bo but
httlo difference between ono Roman tax-gatherer
and another, no matter what might bo the Danner
under which ho professed to sail. Selfishness it
?k 3, r **» was the great heart out of vital
LonsUamty, and in too many instances narrowing
the scope of our generous impulses down to the
contracted limits of a benighted Hottentot; and
was even in some instances depriving men of
rieop, and taking away their appetite for food.
This was all wrong; and the professor of Chris
tianity who'had not yet learned by experience
that it is “ more blessed to give than to receive”
bad a* yet bnt very imperfectly mastered his les
son. The noble actions of John Howard, Elixabe h
Fry, and George Washington were eloquentlydwett
upon in this connection. To exercise these god
line qualities of 0)f nature it was, that, in the
language of the texV&titled us to be called “ the
children of the Highest.”
Much more that was said recurs to our thoughts,
but time and space warn us to desist. The sermon
was one of characteristic power and rigorous
thought, and was listened to throughout, with
breathless attention, by a very large and appreei*
tiye oongregatton, 4