' 5 / f i>’A'll.¥ n P|l*s'Si;, 1 ’ '■'“ f ' - qiW» t m \U« Mrrten, Sita&b«ttwt ofAJi Oliy.it fee Doluhb lS g^a^isst,Bz 45T %> * **-. w *■* iit »»*»»,•*■» £ lUSMttSattotiitoatwt M f th» Olty, at InA B'ti P**«i < : 'TT«»KI» T t*«SB>trill i» «mt to SatMrJbera-' b> sawsar* »» IWaOop'w. goo ISwjS'f}*) f (tooaa alarm) »M WwSS.’a*"- 1 ■• ad - ; ■ n3MP«ta»t«r» ua rwoerfeltoaciM Agelta for »»a WaULTPaga CSTEAM BETWEEN NEW YORK AND V 3 (JI.ASQOW--KOJSBCRCK 3,600 ton* Wittui OinmiM.Cofflaaerlw ;tiW‘.YORK'<a,IM too», Boi«* Sa.iOMittuuidwi GLASGOW.!.663 tonJ.JojwlKrx dimMitr'.. th'IWMP«d N»jr Yo*kSW»nl, (Mgr luttsa;jmSlJufYtoa.ntir ud pownrful ftMntro from New Yotftto Glk&gdw direct, m follows «o»Ditrto»t NwwTotk SatanM? Jane 90 ! 1S coon • . BdlaLui-jnSetardwy. JuW 11.13 acoa. ■ ’ , .i.GlMgjw.weduewlwy.. Aug.6.l2iuMii. ■ • New York, Seturdwy. Aa5.33,-13noQn, , • ,„ r AilatoK SefunUy Sept S 18 soon • - . • •..-. -raox.otoSQoir. - .. * ..... > ‘ oo '« or- Jonel?: : . .. ~o . -—.- •■ • • Otago*; JMy 8. , ~ ~ ’ i July 38 Bdlsktu*. Aug 8 OlMgoWjßejpt 6 > wiTta or MSawoi ■ ; ifirrt CUM, f>6; thtrt ctaa, tempi ,»lth:.co»fcs4 i>?as •. TMtsUr, So,< ,M«mwi«t«6d>aw(gBo& 6tt6oheA t 6 tMb •Sower or MjW m MmWw tjmlr to JOHN MoSY MW, No IT BSOADWIYIFew Wk dty kill* ot gold oMytataityt for p*Mtg» auio-ln- A} tint Yoj* aj&a Havre Steimflup company —The 1 tWM #»<** Mall SteanisMpAXßACO. i.m tons '2.600 toe): /i*B.-AT.Wott«4 wtanlMder., wIU leave '■ Hew "Ter*. , fDrUieywaiW.ml’U, <>l> Si ftmoxinrSca i I i *»' Fulto# Mauri Ang 1 33 Anco, Saturday, Jan « Arced,; l# ss>»Fplfon <6 *Mb B FulSm do 1 Offt 17 Alice do MuchC Aiaeo, do.- , ■ Hor. H Fulton. ; do. April 3 . Foltoa. do. Dec. 12 Araco. ■ do. . May - 1 . . Pultun. do. . Map 33 -«av» warns. «av* soorw&wrm. . "86T j 1867 Arago.Tueaday, Any. 25 ‘ Aragb, TMdaeaday, Aug. 28 VtUtoh.'O'de.o. Sept. 22 .. Put ton,. ■ do. Sept. 23 Araev. do.v r.OoV; 28 ■ Arego. .do. (let. 21 Miton,. vdo. :.Her..l7. Fulton, - do. ' -Nor. IS A taco, do.' Deo. 16 Arago. . do. Bee. 16' ■ . .1868. . . : . . ■.:... .1868.. 11l ton, do: Pan. 12 Fulton. do. lan. 13. Ataco, -no,,' Fen.y Araco, no. ; Fro. jo Felton, doll Marclt 9 . Fulton, do; ■ Mar. 10 Anuo, , do. .- . April 8 Arago, do, April 7 Iwlfcn/do. May d •-. Fulton, do,. .'May 6 Arago. - . do/' Janel ; Araco, . do. ; iune2 Fdlton, ./d0.;... June 28 . o Pulton, .. do, 1 , June 30 ' ' 4 T;“',.. ' ■/. pawn or rißsaaa: .c/i 1 ' Frith Jltttr.Tork 1 to goutharcptoa or Havre—Flret CablA,giaO; BecondtJal»in,t76. 1 From 'Havre .or Southampton to Hew. York—Pint! CihW, 800 fria iSethudCebln, 600 francs, lor freight orpnaeage, apulyto " . t . ■’ t >. JtOBTIMEitiHVINffSTOIJ, Agent, T Broadway?: 00/ WHIIAM IBKUN, :t Havre'. l 1 ’ .OBOSKKV * CO. l i v 86uth'(on; ,/i AMOIOAN . HDIIOPKAH) .. -t, . , ' < d , *3CPHSBS.:/AMI) ; j:X4 .. Barltt. ~ •.■ F 'IOHAHQHOO, 1 / /„* auß. eATANii AH\AKD' OHABLKiTQN ' -. FMIOBTB BSBDOEB. /'o The weU' hnowo. Srtt . claaa ilde wheel Steanuhlpa KiraXOHE STATS _aud-STATE OF, tUSQBai A,. now farm a weekly LTnnfor theSouthandßoothweat, one, ofWahips lOo’ofaskri , ■k.'V*'/-’ FOB SAVANNAH, '<“/THE BTEAMSHIPKEPfITO?f£ STATE. OBAMBS P. MiasmfA*, Commander, ‘ ' ■ ’ J - : WUlrecelve frejehton THOTtSDAY,Sept. 3d, and sallow SATCHDArTsent 6%»t 10 o’clock, A. M.' • - .;frsr., ttumaiatmt.A. 04;- u>t - , ' ;;/JrHBMH#me.STATBWr L ltp)BQlA,. •? Vtmr 3: QAaVlC, Connaintier, 1..,;, - - ,j Wm. reeel™ fnt!eht ; on , mvS&DAY. Augnat 27th, ' Pniwiht CharleaSßi, i:0.,0n BATUBPAF, Asgtiat' .■■;S&Jsft"»'o'CloCk i ‘^Ml ' fot'florid*.and fitvana, aad irithrirt -4U places In the Sooth and Sooth. • ; : ‘j * ye<t on -,'a / ; / r KohUli.«f lading signed oßer hM »ilW.> f<irw«kWoTpM«Meapdy to' \ ; ;; XThIsON; Jr.,; SI North Wt^arres.' , Af«ot« at ChStfloatoh.-T. S: & /,*,* Af«ntat^f^&^ f -i •* ' fcomSavMuiahj steuoßTS ot. 34A&YS a&d BwO»KS«;ov#cr.TaeMsy &na Sstardsy. i ;u b fOR WOBADAifr6ttCCliarlMtb», 4 H4K«T«yToe«t4r> ? - ', r v' '"7; ' • fO»«AVANA. fiom Chatleston/ steioier ISAMfiy hf o^onth. , ~ > Aul ; rKfflEj iJfE W' YORK ANI). LIVERPOOL ffoT&iNllO,C»pt.oU*erB!dH<ig». . V. W»ASBIATIO. o»pt. Jams. Werf, MmSjWiellave liken Mitt |>, coitjMt.'Wilkiiajf'Xaf «Kftii^Siitsetrli!e; l kte«7'i>e»e-kile'k»ii ttken'ihaeti •aeetrtetieeijMfUo in.tlulcM(inu, itman etnattb M» tt iuwu*t (com K<«?KftS?«o Xtonofcl, in dnt Tuk.M tm Sr*«%MV So bertha Mturedniieiie ml* llii ha-rt (mpmed 'MtM'tJght r^»Wt , QaispDATKS QFSAHtSO; it ; -■. rtok Mnr: xok;mom tmgavMi.! s «***rt»y;;Jtm»3S, .. 1857. Wedneedtj.-ienoM, ’,1857 fcftrtUy, Mj- 4, MT ■VMnXu.X toiy « 1857 5JEa},. J<ilylB, • 1867 WedoMtyjilJsi MM' SkWiy Aug: vIWWMMiJ jfe*: 6 MSS7 firt»l»j,Aug.l6 1 1867; WeaneMiy AM.l#,' .1857 amnrtey geS.ll',. ,1867 S.pl-a >M»r- IrtKs!>; : aept.s .1567 WB4I«SJvS.Sfc«&JIB67 g.telSj.qct. la, 1867 WeSiwfl»yyOot.:U v . 1867. 1857 0ct...28, -1857; S»ttlSffi«OT. 'T;.t _lBB7 WMneSS*y, Noy.ML.MSt. Srt««e}?llpT.2i;-; .1867 WMaity, Not.TW,,, MS7 btoaitf} Peo. C; 1W WednenUy, Beo. IBM - ■ Vffl'ofciorfoKßee.'as.riSsr , *BiMsbi&oo2iairftHo/«« w«n«teM, h.t, SBOTrirgBISIiBY Aioo., lA?erpo&S. V; . |T©HWrKSHNABD .6t CO., 27 Anrtln Mere, -- : fKiii: '; ' The owner# oftbeie ships, 'MU not be Accountable for Cold/Silver, bullion; £p&i«;,jewelry ,pe eeioua 'atones or . thOfef©r,'and V V*-TdLa* thiteot *TpresMe&ibtit%in >- > sal.tf <wwy^M^w^MM»^it^»Wcv<^Vii«vww<A'Vv»»»W%»iA*'WVVM»CnWWvW%A»v>**. T7IR EU EKI OK < JP.VASD BBtrOOffiT, iirirti-t«t corin’ SrWlHAiid' OEWnTO* cgtwetiLSUMd,kttf W« Munftcton of -taawH.v ■ or- jAtuio/L Msona, w hlcfe by thalfedleailar t£«Jßl»uUr t ; l ,AiaLTiaDl. cowlT v 1; > *»<>,;.. * Thii'Xtfesce it* preperagcn of ,untum*l .pkcell«nc«- Barite tfci‘,Sawni*T .(months, ao family of trareuer ■hoaw-be,without it; of the “bowels, in naaSMA/ted partlealarly In'aei sickness, itis an active and aaa t s*;w«U as a pleasant aodefficlenireniedy, C^CTjOßf—Pattens during an artieW that can- be relied ppoa r salelyfron? pure JAMAICA GIN* particular to asks forßrown , a Xs* •ence of Jamaica- .Ginger,'? which is. warranted ?to be vbtett isrtprasentedj ted is prepared onljr ,Dj.VA£D£< BICKXiiOWff ? *64foirsale at bL^l^gted Obtmical SU>^^t^rcorn«‘ k df ; ?l«ril>ttd i CttSStNUl‘ bysilthe respectable ■ JtXXlGfitlt And G&BJBN; afreets,, Philadelphia,*#. Ik*TA6KHQITBE, proprietor.■, Always on, Jbted .the abofefet Articles of DBCQSi . MBDIOINXS,; pXBTU- X»»cojom t^“ u ‘'’ *•'*v , Stasttiu^w 1 * Pettet' fiilfer -god*I’Water' 1 ’Water' Fountain keef*4be vat«r atBB> deg, ;'bi* “fly-rap* 'teJOreaoiß are nckfcifledged bjaUaaMng tbe'citf; - - a*Mra t:;Ss ': ;,%• > ;/;i .j. -, , . a; co., ltaa»mtjr«r»(>l&AßAlaSßS,BßAOKSTB,PJiN uiirr*; UTUtNOg, cod cifTEdlof oarcd* iamp WORK, ,*q.„jNor.. 329, OHJgTIOJI «*;BROADWAI',,«* rr TctX. MnattaffcittM.-ritti OuiPhict. ud >ll ItUl* Of Altirin* ui icffiriDjt oI OtaWctlt. '■■■':• ■ ,’' " . • '-.■• coi'-lm*.■■ Jotriitn ul Amo tInoSARDWAXE and QDTLT.RT,No«. 43,25 Ml 27 Ncrtfa PI9TH Street,' Sect aide, chore Commerce attest, PiriwteipMe. , ■■■;■.,, . tom; r-Ija&JiUES cTETErGOMkISSIONgkER. OKAJ*T : And i Importer 'of HAVANA SRSARS, 5 . ptoi, .' s£> 'tfMal, .Jf. fy^SSmSS^^KBBSSBS^cr- inform their .frited*. *pd the trade genera aUy tbit’.tMr hareraado amtefnneois fo* ofieoTtbcJr B«yml*antig forAtfio, French ted German - jSSfitw?' je«4 > tfc* 'permanent rest* denied Parts -of two 1 of ike ail* randan 1 abundant -'capital; tber can oßbrshatuHiaT ftettlnM for THB FUE* OHAfIg.ON I COMMISSION Lin any of,7th* Snropean toarhsts^for.sWpnientdirect-- \ -.*.-«♦■ _>* \ii Tbey 'Mo ai&o prepared to receive otdert from samples torp!pirer»tedXeatfiewfrouj.thelreitensiTe,and well khow^lbuuidfftctorU*:ln Paris, to be iObipped direct, fer'daWpaldr, - ‘r “ - *> CO'..lmport«r*; “. • ndlOrgra# - 'v-.' ' Norsoo Brcadrrtky.' TS mQmVQOOKim BXTEACIS Fto JV 4*Voriig PlW.Tuadlng^riceWjelUcat^tkrda, - He Owantf, BUfIC lUage} GSum*;'Bynip*, Bout*, Qrv ' tiesfke.ib&; \ J;u * ' VT r 7 ■'••'■'■ • ~' 11 V* ' 1 . KsgWf#S&K% pf V«lUi*. ■ -' Ir m&VnmtUUt et '. Kitiffcttt Extract of Btapberty. " " “•', KidEhtf»?**tritrt.df,o«lei?‘* - :»' J - ''■•• KritfcVaEJrtwwfc of N«tt*itoe. ; , *v OiMtoion. /f i.-r. ■ Extract, of ISaUnejr, .■> sawe* or oiiijet. ■:.; ; ,■; ■ •;, . XnfihVtSxfchiWof Clore»;' - '■ ' , . jU&t’mtrfctot'AlUsli*;' l ■*- '■••■ j£iiUt’» Extractor l ! - Knliht<a J!xtr&ctof.*frlmt. > met cate, and «•>«. nHjfrfU W« S**»JiWaft«i|tb oftbeMilflle M.ta » pariaM end foaaMt%U6 forffli rant aether time and ih anycli ’iad ceabe it MUoniof the yeerwhen thffeafifttir ' flirt Wfflrtllitii ~' T ’ “ ■'<?! ,Tk*y wpotttp In ft neat and conyenUnl xaa&tswfoi* ■ Bftheri „ ead, tit«,OTWle j»; VOL. I—NO, 22. Strangers’ <®nitie in |ptjildbietptjia. ; For the benefit of strangers and others who mar do sha to visit'Any of our publio'lnrtHutlonß, we publish the - -1^; ' rysßbiomoxa.oy awjbbmbht. - Academy* ,‘or Muric,(operatio,) corner of Broad and Lociiststrebts/ *•", ’ 'T, ' ” . 'Arab Street Theatre,' Arch, ahoy© 6th street. Parkinson’s GardenJOhestniit, aboVe Tenth. • National Theatre 4ndolrcus/WAlnttt,*bovA Eighth. i * SandfoH’l Opera House, (Salopian,) Eleventh, below Market/; •’ , ■ Walnut Street' Theatre,'northeast corner Ninth and W*laut - f. '-'Vxlv.; f..- ’ * .ThemeuPa Varieties'. -Fifth and Ohestnut. ; Thomas’sQpere Hotted, Airch/below Seventh. :-v .;v.A»TS,^HnBOTSKOIS.‘ i .Academ/ of Natural Sclenct®, corner of Broad and George streets.. , •..•v* - ~ Academy of Pine' Arts, Ohestnut, above Tenth. ; Artists 1 Fund HallJOheatnut, above Tenth. ‘ iPrankUnlnstitutefNo. 0 South Seventh street. , BBsavoLwcr isaTitwross. ! Almahoua?, we*t aide, or Schuylkill,- opposite South ■ street., .. .v,• ■ - • v v / . . Aimehora'(Friends*), Walnut street, above Third. ■; Assooiatiott for the Employment of Poor Women, No. i2W Green street *v ' ■ ■ ’ ; , - for Lost Children, No.’ Sd' North Seventh ;stre«t.- /-/ii-'./. .-h> ■ 'T i i Blind A«lwni‘lUfie; neat 'EwantiethMreet. c Christ Church Hospital. No. 8 Oberr/,street, ', Rlty Hospital, nineteenth street, near Coates. ClarluwnlaHanyNb. 163 Cheriy-sYreet.' ' i ;IHspeniary,rFinh'beloW Oheatnht Btreet; " { the.fielief and s Employment of the iFoor, street. V T G ardiana of Pocir, daw ; No. 66 North Seventh J y 7 i 'MasonicHalt,Chestnut,aboveSeventhatreet. ■ corner of and Twenty-first ; &erthem WCT*h«ey, N 6.1 SprihgGMden street, i CallowhUL,:./- :-J\ r, /■ - | Odd FeUowstHaU, Sixth and Haines street. • Do, ; i ;do. g.B.comerßtoad&ndSprlngGar. s . ... den streets. > J . Do; ' do; Tenth And South streets. , ; Do. , do. Third and Brown streets, t Do. ddT ItldgelU^djbelow Wellace. PennsyWMiA.HnspiW, Pipe street, between Eighth and Ninth. < V o V) «' f -' . S ■ (Pennsylvania Tnstltuteforthe Instruction of the Blind, orner R&ce and Twentieth street. Penasyiraoia Society for Alleviating the Miseries of Public Prisons, Sixth aud Adelpfai streets. I Pennsylvania Training’ School for IdJotio and Feeble- Minded Children, School House £ane, Germantown, offlceNo. 162 Wrinut steet.' \ PWiadelphia -Orphans l Asylum, northeast cor. Eigh teenth sndCherry u 1 ■ . Preston Retreat, Hamilton, near Twentieth street. [ Providence Society, Proad, below Sixth street. 1 Southern Dispensary * No, 6* Shippen atteei. ; .Vmon Association. N. W. corner of Seventh and Bansom streets. . Hoi^iial, Race, between-Eighteenth andNlne- Girard artfnno, between Fif { Episcopal; Hospital/ Front street, between Hunting don and Lehigh avenues, 1 •. i\ ■ Philadelphia Hespital forDfsessesof the Cheat. S. W, comer otGheatnutand Park streets. Wert Philadel phia.,-. r. ,r i- ‘ / t . - : . WBLIO'BDTLIMWaS/ .. CustoQiHotue,OhMtnutstreet,abovePohrth. '' j County,Prison, Psasyunk road, below Beed. ‘ i City Tobacco Wareboiftd. Dock and Spruce streets. I City Controller's Office, Girard Bank, second story. 1 ! Commissioner :of City Property, ofiea, Girted Bank, Moomtstory. .. - r - r I City TreasurerWo«ee, Girard Bank, second story. ) Oity.Oomtaisidouer’s Office, State House. ; City Solicltor’i Office. Fifth, below Walnut; { \ City. Watering Committee's Office; Southwest corner, Fairniount on «ha Bchuyl- TGlnMiirruat.TreasUrer’ii Office, Fifth.above Chestnut. ; HouseoflndusttyjOatharine; Seventh. , House of Industry, Seventh, above 7 Arch street. 1 House of Kefcge; : oomer Poplar and William. • § ou it? (odored,) William and Brown, j Health Office, corner of Sixth and BAnsom. 1 House of Correction, Bush RM. <'"> 'Marine Hospital,- Gray’s Perry road, below South street. • “ * ■ 8l- W. -comer- Fifth and Oie.ltmt flßw-Peoltentm7, Coates .freet, Vetireeo Ifireßtr foutth and Tirentj’.flfth atneta.-' • ■ -* , i HaTr.Yatd/kn U 6 Delaware, cofner Yront and Prime satreetn. - - c.-. ’< * : ' - ■ : »- - -- < *’*', 1 ({Nprihern ElberWes Gas Worti/Maiden; belo* Front -7 .. 7. : ' .Port Office, No. 287-Dock street, opposite the Ex- • /-* ' ] Port Offioa. Kensington; Frankford road, below Shacks- Bpring- Garden, OallowhUl, near Eighth street* * iPbiUdrigfela Exchange} corner Third. Walnut and. > iPhUedelplua Gas Works. Twentieth and Market; office, No*AB. Seventh street. . {Pennsylvania Institute for DeAf and Dumb. Broad and Pfneatreets Treatylfonuewnt/Beach. above ißhaekamaxoa BehooKSi E, j corner Broad and Green lPrtWlcNonaalßchool, Sergeiit.aboreifintji- 1 V. aMrt i*U fllxtli 'jNmUPnotiM.AiMs mum: w wttt »«*<.:• ■^W^maSSr iM{, ‘ utnr ’ u " lSfrl t* rTetoperanoe 'Hall. Cfiririfsn; above Ninth street. ■ • ,e - 1 • United State. Mint, ctfriiMof Ohertuut niid Juniper .treat.,i- ’ ; Unlteri SUiM AMsaxl, (Jray’.Forry Rokl, nenr rede. Til utreet. - f - ■ ‘ ■ Naval Aiilum, en theßeta,Hall, near South street. jolted BUM ArMrarid Clothing Binipege, comer of Iweinh end (Hmd etnete: - - United.i stntee' ttturterninster’p ' Office, comer of FjraWhaaA'GlrariWwatt.’, " ’ '• (jil l - • - '■ contain. • , ptUaga ot Pharmacy, Zni attest; above Serenth. gcleetloKedloel oollege,Hilnej etreet.'erert of Sixth. •WWiftth'.iW ’i-r * ■ '•* 1 • A Jeffereoo Medical Oollege. Tmth iitreet, below George. Medical.lnatltnte, Locust,’ above Eleventh street, polytechnic College, corner Market and West Jenn fidnaw.;; Pennsylvania Medical, College, Ninth street, below -Xocost. -V..< . ■ Philadelphia Medical College; Fifth street, below .Walont. '. < " , Female Medical College, 229 Arch street. University of Pennsylvania, Ninth street, between Market and Chestnut. Medicine and popular knowledge, nooanoa ov donate, T Uaited -State* Circuit and Dirtrfct Court*. tfo. 24 fifth etwet, below Chestnut, • . paprfime Court of PenußylVanU, Fifth aed Ohentaut aireeto. ‘' Court of Oommoa Fleu, liiddpei&deuee HaU. Plrtrict Court*, Noai 1 and 2, coraer of Sixth arid GKeftautatreata,: <•- • • 'k. , Court of Quarter Sessions,«« of Sixth nod Chest nut street*. • ' I ■ ' MUOIOOS ISSTITCTIOM3. Americao Baptist Publication Society, 1 No. 11* Arch street.- . ,f ; American and foreign'Christian Union, No. lit Cheat nutstreet... American Sunday School Union, No. 316 Chestnut street. ~~ American Tract Society, new No. 929 Chestnut. ( Menonlet, Crown 1 street, below OallowhlU atreet. , Presbyterian Board of Publication, No. 26* Cheatnnt Btreet,,t -- v •- ’ ■ , ■ - - Presbyterian-PnMicatldn Houae, No. 138 t Chestnut atreet.,-. j „ s. •„ v , ToungMen’sChrletla® Association, No. 162 Ohestout etrieet. , • Philadelphia BiWe,' Tract, end Periodical Office (T.‘ N- Stoekton’s,) No 1 .686 Arch street, first honse heiour 81« b street, north aide. ■■ ■ "’• . (EroDtUer’s ©nifor. . R'AILBOAI) LINES. Pmtc. Cwjwli. -fi.—Depot, Blerenth and Market. .7 A. Me, Mail Train for Pittsburgh tod the’West. ■PJtf Mae for Pittsburgh and the Wert. 2.80 P, M., for Karrisbarg and Colombia, ■ 4.80 P.M.. AaoofflißoriattoaiTraia'faw HP. M m Express Mail for Pittsburgh and the West. » -K««roa<p-Depot v ßro*4 aadvYlae. , Williamsport, v : V. Eirafra end Nfanra Pali*. ‘ , 8,30 P. M., 9* above (Niabt Express Train.) . * 'Jj . ' .‘w wrk Wmi; 1 I A. M.* from Kensington; via Jersey City. 6 A. if., from Camden, Accommodation Train. 7 A. M., from Camden, via Jersey City, Mali. Walnnt^street wharf, riis Jersey city. 3 P. M, yin Camden and Amboy. Express, SP. M., via Camde&i Accommodatloa Train. OP M., via Camden and Jersey City, Mall. 6P. M., via Camden and Amboy, Accommodation. , . ' > * - Qonmtttn* Lines. ,84.M*i from Wainntatreet wharf, for Beividere.Earton, ,2 I & ' AA. M,, for.Praehold. K -off -.A l ftm Walimt street -wharf. 2P..if.»fprPreehold.,'. ' 2.30 P. M., for Mount Holly, Bristol, Trenton, kc. ? 5-,M.,for.r*toyti, %tU£,gt<m, BordenWn, Ac. 4 P. M., for Belvidere, Boston, to., from Walnut street Li ... .j>insfeuf/ i • • P. »y ftrlfotuitHoHj., Borituetou, to. . JBoWmore Jl. JS—Depot, KokisndPrireO. 8 A. M., for'Bsltlmore, Wilmington, Sow Castle, MW _ „ ~ , dletown, Borer, and Beaford. 1 li's•&*. P* 11 '®?™,' Wilmington, and Now Castle. 4.15 P.M., for Wilmington, New CssUO, Middletown, ,• , Borer, indßesfotdi PrefeKt. H P. Hi, for Baltimore and Wilmington ■Nori*Pr«»«y/Ki|.fo B. i£ T De P ot, Brent and Willow. «•}* A. M., for Bethlehem, Baston, Mauch Chink, tc. 8.45 A. M., for Doylestovrn, Accommodation * 2.15 P. M„ for Bethlehem. Easton, ifanch Chunk, *e. 4 P, M., for Doyleatown, Accommodation. 6.35 P. a!.', for ow/nedd. Accommodation. . CamdtnaKdMlanUc JR. .R.—Vine stnet wharf 750 A. My for Atlariff C(tr. 10:45 A. H., for.Haddonfleld. 42. M..forAtliattoOltr 4.40 Pe u for IWdonfleld. - - JR»r WsstaUsfer. By Columbia It. B. and Westchester Branch. 1 . j from Market street; Bcmthslde, above Eighteenth. 1 Leave Philadelphia 7 A. M., and ipiMl v “ Westchester 050 A. if., and 8 P.M. 1 On Bomdats * Xeetve Philadelphia 7At M. 1 “ - WestehetftorO p. M. Bui Iroad,open to Peonelton, Grubbs •i-'-'-i • 'Bridge. • . [ Prom northeast Eighteenth end Market streets. LeivePhiladelphiao, and«A.M.,2, 4, andoP. M, ' >‘ l , Penneltph/Crubha Bridge, t, 6, tod 11 A. M, and ' -«L_J AaadeP.M; * ■■* * On Saturdays Ust train from Pennelton at 7 A.M. ’ w»i.„ 4-4.. 0,1 SOBt)ATB Leafs Philadelphia BA, H. and 2 P M ** 'Germantown. $ .Norrittowtt R, ft, —Depot. 9th and ' uHfS. ’ A **> “" d 1116 P ' ,6 A. M, and BP. M/,for Downingtown. VWlwb hteiiir^ 6 - 8 -‘“ d9 * Chtitlr TaUey R- a)—-£ek?e PhiladeljiUa OA.M. and ',BP»M’e ■ ? 1 ! -;;.sx>a7e Powningtown?j<; A. M..and I V. M. 5 Kfc<y. ~;I.!...g*EAMBOAT UNBS\ <&,> Taeony, Barline, if wJfcfc otifnwfPWßelifol, ftdfoWalhnt rtjwtt WhaS. M., Delaware, Boston.,and Kennebec, for Capo .L..." 5 ?'. oWtpl?f'holowS>nee«trore. i u"iB<M( <v M.itart(lv#( 3, andeP. M., John A, Warner { -ic« ,Bsirio), Bnr -i» I B9AtM,fla«wtil,MeßoaaM 1 . : fotCiiW Sfoy, or ory 4; j ottttmer Uefeoris. rftHE EPHHATA KOITNTAIN SPRINGS A opened the tenth day of Jrine, wltb additional 1m- Erovementa and more extensive accommodations. This ealthy summdr resort haa the advantage of the purest 1 atmosphere and water, the buildings being located one thousand feet above water level. The prospect embraces an extent ef country nearly-forty miles square, and points in ten counties are visible to the naked eye. Baths of'tvtty description, and extensive graveled, shady walks, The peculiar virtues of the water beta Is the great softness and purity it possesses, (being quite as efficacious in restoring tone, health, and vigor to the wholo system as that Impregnated with mineral,) conse quently more, palatable for drinking and better for bathing. The amusements are a superior band of music, billiards and ten pins, pleasant drives over good roads. Accessible from Philadelphia via B&Uroad to Lancas ter or Reading,reaching the spring by either route within six hours. For farther information apply to Myera, Kirkpatrick & Co., Third and Pine street*, Philadelphia; James S. Earle,No. 212 Chestnut street, where circulars can he obtained, or to the proprietor. JO3. KOIU&MA.OHHB, Ephrata P. 0., Lancaster county, Pa, auJ6-lmo ttEA-BATHING AT CAPE KAY, CAPE ISLAND.—The Centre House will bo kept open for the accommodation of visiters until November next, at ft reduced price, , .J. B. MKOBAY, Proprietor. e.ugl9-eod2w Hazelton and SPRING MOUN TAIN. Lehigh, Hickory and Locurit Mountain Schuylkill Coal for sale at KNOWLES' Peoot, NINTH and WILLOW Streets. &Ul4*lm COAL! COAL! COALTAGGART? 8 CELEBRATED SPRING MOUNTAIN LEHIGH COAL. f. & R. CARTER’S GREENWOOD, TAM AQUA COAL GEORGE W. SNYDER’S PINS SOREST 80UTJYL ■KILL COAL. - • • . SANDALb & MEREDITH • Hare for sale, and ace, constantly receiving from .above celebrated Collieries, } • > v COAL OF ALL SIZES. 1 There ia no Coal mined anywhere, equal in quality .these, and a tidal will convince any one of their great aupetiotlW. Our Coal la very carefully screened at our yards, and we will warrant itperfeetly free from slate, dust and all Impurities. OurPMQBS are as LOW as the VERY LOWEST. , Older* left at our Office, No. 351 SOUTH FRONT street, above Walnut. , Orders left at our Yard, OALLOWHILt street, belo* BROAD stmt. Orders left at our Wharf, WATER street, above CAL LQWKILL—or sent to either place per Despatch Post, will receive prompt attention. Purchasers for family use will do well to call and ex amine our Ooal before purchasing elsewhere. au4-tf BUCK MOUNTAIN COAL—Direct from the Corapany’a Mines, and the only authorized agents, by retail, south of Kensington. 1 Also Lehigh and Schuylkill Coal. T. TREADWAY. Swanson street. au2o»2m) , Ist Wharf above Washington, Southwark. AND LEHIGH CO<AL.~ ►3 I am dally receiving, at my yard, the besfcqaalityo. SCHUYLKILL AND LEHIGH COAL. My customers, and all others who may favor me with their orders, xuay relyoa setting Coal that will be satisfactory to them. : No inferior Coal kept at this establishment to offer at LOW PRICES. ALEXANDER CONVERT, N. B. comer of Brood and Cherry Sts. T EHIGH AND SCHUYLKILL GOAL.— Xj DALY, PORTER A CO.. COAL DEALERS, No. 821 PRIME Street, above Eighth, keep constantly on hand, at the very lowest rates, a foil supply of Lehigh and Sahuyjklll Coal. aul-6m TUMBER AND COAL.—MONTGOMERY XJ Sc NEALL haring connected the Ooal with the Lumber business, inform their friends that they have mode contracts for a supply of the' best qualities of Lehigh and SohuylklU.Coai, and are now ready to re ceive orders, Twelfth and Prime streets. Orders may be left with Mr. S. KILPATRICK, No. 33 8. FIFTH etfeet.or with Mr. WM. D. NEALL, oornor PINS and WATER Street*. , aullWlm SUtornejia ot £m». TIORACE L. PETERSON, ATTORNEY fLX AT LAW, No. PIT SANBOM wtreet. au2g.6t fiEORGE H. . ARMSTRONG, ATTOR- X* NRY AT LAW AND CONVEYANCER, 1,344 Lombard street, below Broad. aul7-lm* TVANIEL DOUGHERTY, ATTORNEY XX AT LAW, Southeast Corner of EIGHTH and LO CUST Streets, Philadelphia. aul-ly MYER ST ROUSE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CENTRE street, PottsvlHe, Pa. au4-Iy IfOHN BINNS, UNITED STATES COM «F MISSIONEB AND COMMISSIONER 09 DEEDS, AND THE PROBATE OF ACCOUNTS for several States and Territories. He is. by law, authorized to administer Oaths and Affirmations to bo received in All the Courts in Pennsylvania. : JOHN BINNS may' be found in his office, No. 316 South SIXTH Street. opposite the Oounty Court House, frbmSA.'MTtoKPvM:, /' . aul-Im s-,.. 'Stffifo.fltosf Sftfes. SALAMANDER SAFES. ! A largo assortment of j_ EVANS & WATSON’B PHILADELPHIA MANUFACTURED SALAMANDER SAFES, VAULT DOORS. For Banks and Stores. BANK LOCKS, Equal to any now in use, IRON DOORS, SHUTTERS, Ac.. On' as good terms as any other establishment in the United States, by EVANS & WATSON, No. 26 South FOURTH street, Philadelphia. .: PLEASE,GIVE US A CALL. > aul3-tf ttJctriiec, Seroelrji, &t. Bailey & co., chestnut stbeet. Manufacturers or 1 BRITISH STBRLINO SILVER WARE, Under tbeir Inspection, on the premises exclusively. , Oitlsens and Strangera are invited to visit onr manu factory. , WATCHES. Constantly on hand ft splendid stock of Superior Gold Watches, of all the celebrated makers. DIAMONDS. Necklaces, Bracelet*, Brooches, Ear-Rings, Finger- Blogs, and all other articles In the Diamond line. Drawings of HEW DESIGNS will bo made free of charge for those wishing work made to order. ' RICH GOLD JEWELRY. A beautiful assortment of all the new styles of Fine - Jewelry, such aa’Mosalo, Stoue and Shell Cameo, Pearl, Coral, Carbuncle, Marquisite, Data, Ac., Ac. SHEFFIELD CASTORS, BASKETS, WAITERS, Ac. Also, Bronze and Marble CLOCKS, of newest styles, And of superior quality. aul-dtw&wly iilisrrlimuous. T OPAL FREIGHT NOT! C,E—T H E Li PENNSYLVANIA BAILROAD COMPANY .re now prepared to receive and forward FBEIGUT between Philadelphia, Lancaster, and Columbia, at the following rates per hundred pounds: . BBTWEBN PHILA. AND COLUMBIA. FJrstOlasi. Second Class. Third Class. Fourth Class. 22 eta, 18 cts. 16 eta. 24cts. flour, 18 eta. per barrel. Pig metal, 10 cts. per 100 pounds. , BETWEEN PHILA. AND LANCASTER. First Class. Second Class. Third Class. Fourth Class. 20 cts. 17 cts. 16 cts. 13 cts. Flour, 26 cts. per barrel. Pig Metal, 10 cts. per 100 pounds. ARTICLES OF FIRST CLASS. Books, Fresh Fish, Boots and Shoes, Nuts Ip Bags. and Wooden Ware, Porter and Ale In bottles, Pry (joods. Poultry in coops, EggaJ Pork, (fresh,) Furniture, Poultry, (dressed,) Feathers, Wrapping Paper. ABTIOLEB OF 2d CLASS. Apples, Blolaases, Cheese, Melons, Clover and Grass Seed, Oils In casks or barrels, Crockery, ' Paper in boxes, Caudles, Pasteboard. Casks or Barrels, (empty,) Peaches, (dried,) Grocerlon, Printing Paper, Guns and Rifles, Paper Hangings, Kferrlog in boxes and kegs, Queeosware, Hardware, Sweet Potatoes, Hops, . Tobacco in bales, .Iron, hoop, band, or sheet, Tea, Leather, • Tyne, Liquor in wood, * Tallow, Marble Slabs and Marble Turpentine, (sptß.l) Monuments, Varnish. * ARTICLES OF 3d CLASS. Alcohol, Potatoes, Coffee, Turnips, Hldos, (green,) Vinegar, I4rd, White Lead, Oysters & Chuns, (in shell) Window Glass, Tobacco, (manufactured,) ARTICLES OF 4th CLAS3. Codfish, Rosin, Cotton, Salt, Fijih, salted, Tobacco, (leaf,) Grain of all kinds, Tin, Jtyllaand Spikes, Tar, Pitoh, Whiskey, Plaster. C 7" For further Information apply to E. J. SNKEPEIt, Freight Agent, PhiU. E. K. BOICE, Freight Agent, Columbia. *u!3J W. 11. MYERS, Freight Agent, Lancaster. TMPORTANT IMPROVEMENT— A NEW GAS CONSUMING FURNACE. PHIZSOJPS NEW CONE FURNACE , after having bees pat to the most severe test, during the two oox.n» wistbrS o* 1855 iso UB7, has proved to bo the most ‘powerful heater in the world, laving from H H thefy.ei over any of the best furnaces now fa use. Tffsga are constructed with a cast iron ash pit, and a byoad, shallow pan-shaped fire pot, lined with Sre-bmk or iron staves. The fire pot is surmount «d,wjtb a! SERIES OP CONES, or TAPERING RADIATORS, Ut'ge and broad at their base, bat tapering to small aper tures at the top, and uniting with the anular chamber, through which the heat and smoke pass to the flue. The tools products of combustion In the form of jmofce and OA6EB, are suspended directly over the Are. oqwimbp or compressed Into the tapering Coses and CoititfCALLT Expobbd to the direct action of the rasa of heat and light from the fire. Th/a heat and light i* brought to a rooua In SACS Cost* not unlike the „ ; COLLECTION OP THE SON’S RAYS, to a focal point through an ordinary lens, causing the SMOKE AND Oases to become intensely heated andtho* roughly CONSDMed, by this operation the shoes and oasis are mads equally available with the fuel iTaatr 1 for heating parposes, while, in other furnaces, itiSOAIIiRIEP o ft AHP WABTBt> IJ< THE CHIMNEY. All 'persons desirous of obtaining the beet and IIOSjT ECONOMICAL HEATING APPARATUS, should not fall to examine the New Gita Oonm»«Q Con* j Fcrnaob, before purchasing any other. The at tention of architects and builders js-partletjUrl j re qutoted. ARNOLD A WILSON, 1 ' /Successors to 8. A. Harrison,) ' No. 62* WALNUT Stmt, Opposite Independence Square. /CONGRESS RANGE.—SOLD BTCSAD- V'WJCK tcBRO., KmaMK. SECOND Street. *ag>B*Bmoa; ' 1 7 PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1857. THE WEEKLY PRESS, • The Cheapest and Best Vfeehly Newspaper in the Country Great Inducements ta CJuba, On the 15th of August the Hrst number of TBs Week* lt Press will be fssnod from the City of Philadelphia. It will be published every Saturday. " The WfiEKtT Press will bo conducted upon National principles, and will uphold the rights of the States. It will resist fanaticism in every shape; and will fye devo ted to conservative doctrines, as the true foundation ot public prosperity and social order. Such a weekly jour nal has long been desired in the United State*, and It la to gratlto this want thai Tan Weekly Press will be publlshml. The Weekly Press will be printed on excellent white paper, clear, new type, and in quarto form, for binding. } It will oontaln the newß of the .day; Correspondence from the Old World and the New; Domestic Intelli- gence ; Reporta of the various Markets; Literary B*« views; Miscellaneous Selections; the progress of Agrt* culture in all its various departments! &c. JET* Terms invariably in advance. t Thu Wbkclt Pabss will be sent to subscribers, by mall, per annum, it.. '. $2lO Three copies for b Ob Eire copies for & 00 Ten copies for .....................W Twenty copies, when sent to one address <.J2oQfrl NOTES ON BOOKS* Twenty copies, or oyer, to address of each aubiicri- ! ;J' .. .... „ „ _ ber, each, per annum ia I*.Thisnew pocket edition of Shelly, gorgeous in For a club of twenty-one, or orer, we will tend f&pWß® gold f contains all his poetioal writings, extra copy to the getter*nj> of the Club. ' f *M| the: Remains and suppressed poems included—in Post Matters axe requested to act as nmtifor small volumes, edited by his widow, with her* Weekly Pneßß. JOJttK W. SQRNKti yV|rßoooUectionS°f Idm, and enriched with an origi •, Editor and Propria memoir by Lowell, the poet, and a fine /portrait. Two small volumes, in beautiful clear [type and fine paper, portable, os well m oomplete. t [They ore published by Little and Brown, of Boston, C / Xlandfbrmpartofaseries^rprlsinglyeheapatseren* L a JJ-l 4* (\ v 0 c®ota a volume. To this collection, also, 11 Jr 51 IED 2) . belong Thomas Campbell's poems, in one volume, Q** CJ \J &c wr abety-sevenpieces not in the English editions; 1 <.iilhom*s Hood, la two volumes, with several poems ' . theretofore not collected; and Walter Scott, in WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 186?. three volumes, a reprint of the last ami beatEcHu r?. - ,-z rr———- - -"r.-rjburgh editions. How obeaply, now-s-tlays, a man THE JEW QUESTION.. Jean get up a good library 1 The Committee of the House of Commons, j The Harperß have published, very neatly got appointed, on the motion of Lord Joux Rue-jup and liberally illustrated, two small volumes of •iEtn and with the concurrence of the Child's History of Greece t ” by John Bonner. went, to inquire whether, under an act “ d . * . * tr. . .. r :lymado, Recent researches, by Orote, Thirwall, ,n the reign of miharn TV. tor the ofterej lsv6 thrown ffinoh lighi on the o „, y Uon of oaths, Jews could take their seat InAnnals of “poor old Greece,” (as Mr. Bonner calls Parliament without swearing “on the truefhithjthe country,) and the information thus accumulated of a Christian,” have reported that they cOttbhas been drawn upon here. There is one ground not. It is too for advanced in the sesaioi of objection to the work. The style is indifferent, now for anything olso to bo done, and the Jews? 14 h fil! P* slo P and familiar-too conversational and must continue under a ban, on account of theirl^/^ ln faot “ wl ; ich '«■ * rtat “ h *f“ in . hooks for young people, who unconsciously are religious faith alone, until next year. There tlml^torf} 6 * J was a vague impression that, early in the !«% yfc Counter»of Rvdolstadt , by George Sand, session, Lord Palmerston would himself take, which is a conclusion to Constieh, has been re* the matter in hand, and bring In a measure complete, by T. B. Peterson. It has would suable Jews to eit in Parliament, jOOiuldmbie inter eat, on account of the celebrated Bring it in ho may, pass it into a law-be eaa-SaronTrenck, the Prussian prison brooker, being not, until the House of Lords, that strong hold? 0 " « r «* b»«»e»- » oonUnnes and completes of Intolerance, abandon their prejudices in*** to ‘ B “ tto »*eryof Oonsnelo. their opposition, which they are hot likely to;., THE MAGAZINES. Publication Office of Trs WSRKLt P«9S, KOi Chestnut street) Philadelphia. • ' do. They have their feet on the necfe of Baron; Harper's certainly is, whntit has diligently ta il ornsorou* and liis race, and they will fcBep!borod to become, not only the most popular, hut it therft. ' jthe befit Magazine In this country. It Is also by The question ofi ustico to the Jews (coupled far m ohea P est - Ev ’ er y now aild then We get dls as it is now in the public mind,, with th T™. «•« «}“•, or,»b .t, or with '’ ih the- ' deprived of the! ''“ kneycd J° kes mtU Editar 8 Dr&,fM - ot wM< ” >teh U« marmot in which they are deprived ... j3ftle abuse of the manners of oar fellow-cilizens, Civil rights of American citizens by tnehotchj deiivereii in didactic essays on the question “Are ed treaty oflBss.With Switzerland) has exclttxj m a poum peopio ?>’ the writer himself being one much interest lit this country. Among ns, instance proving the negative. Bat as a steady energetic, able, industrious, and generally ( favoritb Harper retains its hold. It is most care wealthy, are ii great many of the Hebrew rhCe.fully edited, aa a work ought to,bo with 170,000 We have fostered them, by granting them fall subscribers and sir timea that number of loaders, rights of citizenship, without respect to their,®"™? ** >o new number (for Septembor) wo have religious belief,andwc bavefound them” good s^ id »* d * “<*;• Cresting and valuable article ■° id i. t aa ,» . . ..on- coal ana the coal-mines of Pennsylvania* It men and true" mall the relations of Bfe, public h prof „ |riy iUuBtrflt6d in tllo Marine. Another and private. We sympathize with them on excellent paper, containing skatohos of character, the persecution to which, in England and with incident* aa well as a record of travel, is the Switzerland, their race are still subjected.* Itcommcuoement of a pleasant illustrated series disgraces the age. “galled A Winter tn thr South, fur which WG are The struggle to admit Jews into tho Brtti*hW? l ! aW y Indebted to tho author-artist, who, under Legislature has now lasted over ten years. ' nom * t^' mc of “Porte Crayon,” pro is wholly owing to tho and ter-T 10 «f ‘hat "harming series which T r„.,» nii.iiiai'fA -Uov republished in a handsome volume, fldy of Lord Joins Bus«**, and yfcginU Illustrated.” Among tjto stories of the that Baron Bomsonaudid not takphis seqt/j .^ ambec , tbe hestis “MyMt.rUanoe," ahn -18«, -‘ Iu that ye«-vthanks to the heavy«T MbandJiatuiaLaua “Esther.” There iaanar pendituro of Baron Borasomim, in bribig dent from a Frenoh novelette , “Love after those London voters, commonly known * Marriage,” whioh is a blending pf namby-pamby, “longshore men”—Lord Jons was re-ele<& with exaggerated sentiment. I'berels a good Mo tor the city of London. He gave tho nit graphical notice of Handel, the composer. Wo solemn promise to obtain the immediate 1- have previously condemned, us it deserved, the re . , r _ „ . , . . , markable libels on American women in tho essay mission of SoTHSouan (also elected thento „ Ate m a PoUto Pe u? „ The Bk ;, tch „ aic i his seat in the Commons. And ho was I a follows it. called “ Mr. Seedy,” reminds us too position to promise largely, because heed forcibly of nearly similar characters drawn by Ir almost dictatorial power, he then being Pue vlug and Dickens—and hotter drawn. The Edi- Hinister, with a majority of tho memrs tor's Tablß, Easy Chair, and Drawer, tare re voting exactly as be might please. spccvively worth potaaal this month. On the whole, All he need have dona was simply to lwe “ 5111 Ter 7 « 00il number of Harper. a resolution, which tho Commons would Ire r f Graham's Illustrated Magazine is to give readily passed, that Baron Rotuschiui shld “ g ' aT « S e, a T.f "*1 . , . T , Jewels, in tho September number, the sooner it bo admitted to the enjoyment of all his pii- Jtopa aIMh fl( us tr atfon a the bolter. It is remark leges as a member, on taking such an oatlor ably Cut of drawing ; the eyes of the female, who I making such a declaration aa would bo rst stands in the door-way, are plaoed as eyes were binding on his conscience. This was preefly never yet placed in the “human face divine.” what had been done, in 1838, when Mr. Pee, The literary department somewhat compensates a Quaker, was returned to Parliament, d, ‘ t,r ‘his ludicrous failure. It opens with a trans having declined taking the oaths as memr, Jation, fromib'French ofastcryof.arlyohivatry. was admitted on making a simple deehmun ? hen ? U °” S » 'P,*f b of " . i ± -rr * v * i „ , onora de Gutman,” by Joseph J. Reed—an o’er mstead. Had Lord Joa.v really desiredo trae ml., more mmantio than fiction. Some lighter have Baron Botusohilw seated by bis sidoie sketches, chiefly foreign, give variety to the nom would have acted thus, and neither ic. her, and the Editor’s Easy Talk, including many House of Lords, nor any other power, wdd personal recollections, is very readable. We won kavo the shadow of a pretence for interfere d®* how the editor came to make suoh Cookney the matter being simply connected wltbie Thymes as Panama and afar, Would he use discipline ol the Commons, with whose Intetd dratnar, or ApiUor? The rhyming and regulations the Lords cannot meddle. l" “ c „ 0 “‘ fa ts amusing. * t J T a x. . The thirty-fourth number of Harper’* Story• It pleased Lord John to invtU tho oppU Sof)k> monthly, is called “ Congo,” and tion of the Lords, by attempting to seat Bon f u iiy maintains the high reputation of the series— Koxascattn by statute—a measure repoatey y,, best books for ohildren we have seen, and easily carried through the Commons, d The Mining Magazine, published at New York, as repeatedly and easily rejected by e and edited by William J. Tenney, oontains several Lords. He played this farce year after yr, until ho grew ashamed of the rldlcnloußEs of the affair, acd abandoned it for twor three seasons. Lately, he repeated the {- formance, with the same result. Now, {tig. ened at the threats of the Lords, his comn teo hare reported against admitting Rot child under the Oaths bill of ‘William L If Rothschild bo unable to sit under tt statute, then John Bkiout, who is just . turned for Birmingham, has no right to siti hissimple declaration. We repeat, Lord Jcr Russell has been a trickster and' a liumb; all through this matter. A CONTRAST. An Englishman visiting this country cam fall to be surprised at one peculiarity, to whl he is unaccustomed at home. It 1b ] finds all his countrymen respectably a cleanly attired. He may have known Londi Edinburgh, or Dublin, whore tho greatest, j verty prevails, as well as the largest wealth, a filthy rags constitute tho ordinary costutmj' the laboring classes ; of those who cannot i tain work j and of those who would not wij if they could, preferring crime to indust; Most of these people are most wretched, most filthily attired. One particular class; robbers and swindlers, known as «tho sw« mob," may be overdressed, but tho main b talions are as wo describe them—scarecrows 1 dresß and look, with scarcely garments cnoui to cover them, the luxury of whole shoos boinj novelty to most of thorn. Living from hai to mouth, ns numbers of these unfortuns people do, they and their families feel as! under a crushing, mind-destroying ban. Sj ciety is so constituted thero, that littlo 1c than a miracle can make them emerge tea tho Slough of Despond, (more terriblo tin that described by John Bunv an,) into whi; hopeless, crushing povovty has cast thoi Ambition, if it ever was in their mind, b long since died away, in hopeless apath; They pass through « weary life of consta toil, in a hard struggle for moro cxisteno High rents and heavy taxation (so ingoniouj laid on that the necessities of tho poor ratlj than tho luxuries of the rich are subject to t mulct) beat them down, and keep them dow Their families foil into the mire also. T. children, hare-footed, bare-headed, and eo ered with rags, instead of clothes, run aho tho streets—no ono caring to educate thei The wives, broken in spirit, giyo up the bati in despair, and resort to the pawn-shop and t! gin-palace. And this is the routine of e: istcnce, day after day, year after year, of aho half a million of men, women, and children j Londop j and so, in proportion to the popuh tion, in the other, grpat', towns in the. Unite Kingdom, particularly in suoh vast manufat taring and commercial capitals as Manchester and Liverpool, Blrmlngliam and Bristol, Leed and Sheffield, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Dubli add Cork. It ie very different with us. We confident), refer to Bhißdelpbia as a citywhero labor i Utore honored in lie followers, and made more (fbmfortable In Its results, than in any other city in the world. There is constant and well-paid employment here for all who desire to he in dustrious. Bents are moderate. There is a liberal supply of water, that great minister of cleanliness and health. The streets arc kept clean—in wondrous contrast with the Bookeriea aiid St; Gileses of London, Ibo Sallowgate of Edinburgh, the Gosse-dnbs of Glasgow, the Liberties of Dublin, and the courts and cellars pf Manchester and Liverpool. - i Under such circumstances, with good educa itou provided gratuitously for their children, ihe self-samo men who, in their old homes, Vould be ragged and wretched, have their am- Mtion awakened \ wear good clothes; feel that they may rlae, with ability and conduct, to a station of society which, in other days, seemed hopolessly above them) become enterprising and often weajthy citizens; and literally ceasing t« be SeriS, proudly take their stand in ail the dignity of Manhood, original papers and much judiciously selected mat ter relative to the mineral resouroes and operations of this country. Mrs. Stephens* Illustrated JVeio Monthly ap pears at a sligbtly-lnoreasod price, and with eight pages additional. A very good story, called “West Point,” of which thirty-soven chapters have ap peared, is the best thing in the September number •‘My Rural Doings,” neatly illustrated, is a lively sketch of American country life. There is too much English and too little American matter in this magazine, and we look to the veteran editrix to correct it. LITERARY CRITICISM. LIFE OP JAMES MONTGOMERY. By Mrs. llei.en 0. K.vicur. I rol, 22mo.—pp. 410. Boston; Gould $ Lincoln. A groat book is n great evil. It has been found so in many instances, particularly as re gards the biography of James Montgomery, the English poet. He died in 1854, and two devoted friends, who had been waiting for years to take his life, immediately rushed into print and produced, in instalments, a heavy, lumbering, and unsatisfactory biography in seven mortal octavo volumes. A third of this work was occupied with details about—them selves l They had watolicd him for years, out of doors and in-doors, iu public and in private life, and produced a scries of distorted photo graphs of the poor man’s mind. James Mon tgomery was not a iirst-rate poet, though he stood rather high among the second-class verse-makers of Iris time, and some of his shorter lyrics are very pleasing. Ho wrote under tho impression of strong religious feel ing, and thus acquired a largo audienco among serious people. Hla biographers have done all they could to lake him off the pedestal. They have chronicled the pettiest details. Who cores to know that, before ho went to bed, he would sit by the /ire, with Ids feet on the len der or the hob, sipping his glass of brandy and water? Yet this is one of tho personal traits represented by Messrs. Everett and Hol land. Such a seven-league life would bo as un saleable as uureadablo iu this country, where Montgomery hadmanyadroirere. Mrs. Helen C. Knight has taken the heavy seven volumes pub lished in, England and, from them written a good Life of Montgomery, in one volume. It coutaius a portrait, from an early drawing, by Ghantrey, the sculptor, and a vignette repre senting some stately odittco, tno name of which is not mentioned. The book is hon estly executed.. The maiu incidents of Mont gomery's life are conveyed in a well-written and lucid narrative, and tho work will proba. bly have a large sale. Mrs. Knight, however, has fallen into several errors, some /Vom carelessness, and some (Vom sheer ignorance. Speaking of the poem of “The, Wanderer of Switzerland,” published early in 1806, as coining over the , water hither, she says: “Perhaps the same packet brought the Weird Tbaiaba, 44 or the last new novel of “The Great Unkuown,” as Scott Incog, was then called, or a song from Moore." The fact is, “Thalaba" was published i 1q 1801, and must have been here years before “The Wanderer. 41 Scott, In 1806, hadwritten only “The Lay," and did not publish the first of his novels until July, 1814, eightyaasa after “The Wanderer" crossed the Atlantic, and j was not distinguished As “The Great Un known" until much later still \ and Moore was not a song-writer until 1818. Again': Mrs. Knight, under the date of 1812, laments that,Thomas Campbell, the poet, was then “ dependent on publishers for nls daily bread/ 4 whereas he t haa obtained a life pension of $l,OOO a year from the Government in 1805, and, with* such an Income, certainly need not have been (and was not) dependent on any publisher at any time. Next, Mrs. Knight er roneously states that Bobert Montgomery’s poem, “The Omnipresence of the Deity,” was “equivocally heralded—Montgomery’s New (® an -. "e assure her, from personal know n°thtng of the sort was done, and Robert Montgomery (who died in December, 1855, an eloquent and useful- clergyman. In London) was incapable of such “equivocal” conduct. Lastly, Mrs. Knight makes the Duke m.?V 0 s' k n t,r . e 8 i e i lt , a P llb,io meeting in 1862. But the Duke died in January, 1827, some flve and-twenty years before, arid there has been no successor to the title in tbe interval. These are the more flagrant mistakes which Mrs. Knight has made. TVe recommend her to correct them in succeeding editions, and en deavor to bo more accurate In her tuture com pilations. NEW 000 K BOOK. By Mrs. Siam J.H.lb. 1 vol., 12, pp. did. Philadelphia; T. B. Petition. Considering how much wo are the slaves of what go by the name of « creature comforts,” society owes a good deal to Mr. Paterson for placing before them a new and good Cook Book. The novelty is nothing, but the good ness is a great deal, consisting as it does of giving a great variety of cnllnaiy information, and adjusting the receipts so as to adapt them either for those who have a great deal or; very little to spend. A cook book ou au economi cal basis, yet containing all that the cuitimert ought to know, wore she to provide for a fa mily of large means and pretensions, is what the public wanted, and they have it here. The book has a table of contents, under the dif ferent chapters, and also a very full index at the end. It is handsomely printed, and sub stantially bound. SAM SUCK, THE OLCCKSiAKER. By Judge Hill subton. With Illustrations. Two volumes complete in one. Philadelphia; T. B. Peterson. Over twenty years ago some letters in a weekly Nova .Scotian newspaper got noticed, read, and quoted, not only In British North America, bat largely in the United States. These letters, or sketches, showed a great deal of racy humor, with a broad foundation of prac tical common sense. An imaginary hero, one Sam Slick, a shrewd Yankee travelling vender of clocks, ran through tbe series. • The author was soon discovered in the person of T. 0. Haiibarton, one of the judges of Nova Scotia. The articles were collected into volumes, as soon as there were enough of them, and here (the two volumes in one) we havo them hand somely reproduced in Peterson’s Illustrated Uniform Edition of Humorous American Works. Sam Slick Is shrewd and satirical, as well as humorous, and his remarks instruct as well as amuse. The repubiicatlon ia made In good time, for the work has long been out of print, and its popularity is deservedly great. CORRESPONDENCE. FROM NEWPORT. [Correspondence ot The Press.} Newport, Saturday, Aug* 22. There is a malicious sort of ’pleasure in bowling down a popular fallacy—an epigram ir usually in* controvertible only because not assailed with proper weapons. A charmed life can be reached but by a silver bullet; a simple contradiction falls fiat In presence of a wwt—it mustbe noted out and fall, to be proved false. Experiencc/alaais bat amuseum of fossil affections and exploded opinions. We bare all heard and believed, that when the mum is the matt is there." Yet where Is tho Newport Pepyß, who alone could with hie paper pellet* bring down folly as it fliUby on butterfly wing, (not to be confounded with the bees’ wing of old port,) and bring down to posterity a just and (striking picture of the philosophy of pleasure? Newport deeetvea u chronicler. To trifle grace fully, and enjoy lifo easily, are not American characteristics, yet here the almighty dollar is tossed about as if it were worth only what it can bring; so out of the root of pleasure springs the fruit of wisdom. It is indeed very difficult to give a resume of the last week. A pic-nic at the Fort had the savor of originality, and manger sour U ponce was regard ed as a delightful variety from hotel dinners, where military evolutions take the place of discipline among the servants, and Mayonnaise usurps the throne of mutton on the carte. * A list of shams, by tho by, is soon proved a fallacy by an applica tion of tooth and nail test. * The Coreos at the Fort arc worth notice. These assemble in a small space every oarriage in New port, and two lines are made, which follow the drives inside the walls; the Gerwaniaa blowing , their lives out, en pure perte, in the middle of the , groen. Here, too, lady equestrians exhibit their horsemanship, not always witching the world, and ; officers in uniform dash about, giving a gay mili tary air to the whole. It is a fixed fact that on Mondays and Thursdays you make an appearance at the Fort; other days must go to Bateman’s, no matter how dusty; on beach afternoons you are expected to drive to the second beach and put your counter in the pool. It is rather a pleasant thing to see one’s will and individuality shivered, and to be swallowed up in & pleasant whole of will-less women and complying men. It Saves time, also wear and tear of judgment, and is decidedly an ingenious and highly meohanioa! in vention, like the twelve men set to make»pin. Lots of private dinners pick out the elite of the hotels to do honor to ex-Fresldent Van Buren and Hon. Edward Everett, both of whom suffer them selves to be feasted with lamb-like docility; for once they have a common platform. See, then, how good a thing is pleasure ; it is cohesive in its nature. The old President has not forgotten his king-craft, and his wary little eyes and diplomatic smiles are at the service of the fairest and best in every reunion. Mr. Everett delivered his oration on Washington to a packed audienoe last Monday night, and did himself full justice. Bright eyes beamed, half in approbation of the man, half in appreciation of bis discourse, and he had reason to be Battered at finding that folly had laid down her cap and bells and tried on the bonnet of reason at bis bidding. Tho hop at the Bellevue stood still at his Joshua-like com mand, and only at eleven P. M. was the equilibri um of things restored. A stringent polka redowa and a wild gallop soon brought people to their sen ses again, and the star of Washington paled be fore that of Strauss, as ghosts vanish at cock-crow. Tuesday flagged a little after the pearl dissolved in Monday’s cup; flirtations became more serious in the pause, and in pure despair it was resolved, on Wednesday, to look in at the “ Ocean hop.” Don’t suppose, uninitiated reader, that this means a frolio of mermen and sirens. The Venuses of the occa sion did not rise from the sea, although in the fury of the waits some really presented as few impedi ments to a correot idea of their proportions; but our chaste pen refuses to enter Into particulars; nor is the term primadonna derived from the first woman, Eve, and her modest display. This error we frankly rectified at the time, for our learning Is a portable thing, and easily carried with us into the public service. On Thursday Chateau Sur Mer blazed again in honor of the heroine Miss Andrews, whose horoio conduct during the Norfolk pestilence ho* made her one of tho lions of Newport. On Friday camo off the great ball at tho Bellevue; and we take pleasure in complimenting “ tho gen tlomen of tho Bellevue,” by whose kind courtesy fo many strangers were presented with tho free dom of the hall, and whose successful ball was tho reward which virtue does not always reap. That it began quite too late, is merely a happy illustra tion of Mr. Everett’s denunciation of the prevail ing vice of “ unpuncfcunlity, which, with most un mathematical and odious absurdity, persists in calling it ten till it is elevon.” Such was the case last night at the Bellevuo; hut if the stars rose late they but dazzled us the more. As the room filled, it was evident, from tho exquisite toilettes, that this, was considered an occasion not to be lightly dealt with. The room was very prettily decorated with pink and white, and tho glaring ga9 was rebuked by roso-colored pyramids of wax lights, which painted tho lily and threw a new glow on tho flush of beauty. Tho girls were enchanted. After all, art is mighty, and nature Is not ashamed to borrow from hor sister. Tho offoot of tho piuk light was magical, and tho zephyr-llke dresses floated in a transparent atmosphere of color. Mrs. 11. D., iu a beautiful white gauro with a trcllico of ribbon and trailing wreathoa of white morning glories thrown over it, was conspicuously beautiful. Her sister, Mrs. W, D., in embroideredguipuro-musiin, with pink passed in and out of* the headings, was extremely well dressed. Miss 8., in puffed tulle, with Ulliputian wreathes of rose-buda and violets, was sublime; formerly sho was the beauty of New York, but Time has unkindly given us more to look at and less to admire. MissMcC. bad a lovely dress of white tulle, with myriads of flowers and carnations looping them up. Miss P., in a white tulle with blue silk lappeta from the waist, was decidedly successful. Miss C., in blue silk, caught up with roses, was rather too Pompadour for the jeune fiUe, but it was an effeotiye dress. Miss S » ih pink silk, puffed with tulle, floated about in her own TagHoni style. Miss H., In pink tarletan flounced to tho waist, was exceedingly pretty. Miss T., who has that magnet (notof steel) to our century so much more potent, in simple white, was Surrounded all the evening. Mrs. J. had on a rioh lace dress, with reminders of black velvet—the very luxury of wo. Mrs. 0., in a paxure of field flowers, hud & stately TWO CENTS. simplicity, quite piquant, w contrasted with her usual style. Miss 0. H. looted as if she had been sleeping on ft bank of violet; they were scattered ali over-her oostome, which wanted tone or color to be Terr pretty. J But all these dresses, like Longfellow's trailing garments of the night, swept through, the not mar ble halls with » lofty disregard of economy and expediency marvellous to behold. After '* the German*’ a' rag-picker might have made bis fortune—there were shreds of blonde, and scrape of tulle and strips of tarletan scattered all over the room. When Fashion issaes an ukase involving such an absurd contravention of neat ness, why is there no spirited Miss MaPlimsey willing to stand up for the right? Hecatombs of dresses are nightly sacrificed to this arbitrary de cree that, like Birds of Paradise, women must be supposed to have no feet. Papas groan in vain, mammas fan themselves in affected disregard with spasmodic vehemence, bat the brare daughters fling their dresses to the breeze and read their garments—not their hearts. PHILADELPHIA STORES. (For The press.} ~ IMPROVEMENTS op PHILADELPHIA The character of Philadelphia is well illustrated by the in which business i* Conducted In our midst. There Ja none of that intense dear* manifested to, impress the ,mind of the stranger or looker-on with an overwhelming ideaof the immense amount of business done in the smallest possible space and time, as we observe in our sister city of New York—no endeavor to “set the river on fire’’—but a plain, steady, unpretending energy and perseverance that betoken • substantiality and reliability. Our business hum bythU course have now an enviable reputation and fair dealing, and hare. reflected ct‘wjsi our city. The quietness with Which. is des patched, and the habit our- -, have of keeping what they do on the records of their establishments, .and not 1 , publishing high ly colored statements of their extraordina ry large sales, have laid them open to the charge of want of enterprise by those who think there most be a frantic enthusiasm exhibited in everything,' or we are behind the age. This charge is without foundation, as all know who understand the Philadelphia merchant. He is folly up to all the requirements of bis business. Our streets are lined With the largest and most magnificent stores in the world, and on their counters and shelves can be found the best assorted stock of imported and domestic goods in the country. On all sides of ns rise vast piles of brick, granite, marble, iron, or brown-stone monuments of the enter prise and thriving condition of our merchants. A description of one of these establishments will serve to show the character of our merchants. Seme few days since we visited the magnificent store of M. L. HalioweU & Co, on Market street, below Fourth. ThU store, in point of size and ele gance, sa well as in the details of the interior; Is one of the most expensive places of business in this oountry, if not in the world. The front is of solid New firunswiok brown atone, through the whole thickness of the waill. The style of architecture is that known as the Italian Re naissance of the fifteenth century. The first story, which la elevated two feet above the pavement, re presents an open arcade, with arches supported by Roman Doric columns, ftnd large Corinthian pilas ters in the corners, to recoivethc architrave above. Tbo second story is ia the lonio order, and the third and fourth stories are in free version of the Corinthian order, with arched windows between the columns., The fifth story represents, in a mea sure, a large frieze, with caryatid® figures, in place of brackets, to support the heavy projecting cor nico that crowns the building. *The interior of the store is no less admirable. The front part of the building, One hundred and thirty two feet deep, by twenty-six feet wide, is orna mented on both sides with rich lonic pilasters, and ,a handsome heavy cornice; The rear portion, ex tending one hundred and seventy-one feet farther, is fifty feet in width, and forms a very striking feature in the establishment. The ceiling of this vast room is about thirty foot high, with wide galleries ou both sides, supported by columns of alight and florid Corinthian style. The columns' that support the cornice of the oeillng above, as also ali the otberde tailaoftheiintertor, are made toconresjxmd lit *iyle ; producing a very tasteful and harmonious effect. At the north end of the building (a. distance of upwards of three hundred feet from the front doors op Market street) is a double stairway, starting from the centre, and winding right und left, leading to the galleries. The skylights each contain bat one paneof glass, measuring twelve feet by five feet, and are so con structed as to exclude all the direct rays of the sun, admitting only the pure northern light. The large basement room is well lighted by means of numerous “deck lights” of ground glass, set in the floor of the story immediately above it. The space under the galleries on the west side is divi ded into apartments for different kinds of goods, each of which is under the eare of a manager, producing thus, in all these subdivisions under one roof, the some attention, completeness, and method, that would characterize as many distinct houses. In the space under the east gallery is situated a range of eight neat and commodious apartments, which are fitted up in an elegant manner as count ing and sample rooms, Ac. One of these is appro priated to the use of customers, the design being to make such persons feel at home by providing them a place where they may converse, write letters, and otherwise employ themselves, without feeling that . they ore in the way of, or interrupting the busi ness of the house. Another similar apartment is arranging as a reading room, and is supplied with files of a number of leading commercial papers of this and other cities of the United States. All of the rooms on this range are brilliantly lighted with gas, and several of them are furnished with speak ing tubes, communicating with remote parts of the establishment. At the rear ond of the first story on the west side is located what is styled the receiving and ex amining rooms, in whiob all the goods coming to the store are taken, opened and inspected, and then distributed upon the shelves in the various s&les-roomi. Through a hatchway in the floor of this room the goods sold sre transferred into the large basement hall below, where they arc packed, coopered, marked, and then taken up through another hatchway Inside of the store door on Fourth street, and thence despatched to the point of shipment, or to the railway freight depots. This arrangement for the receipt, unpacking, and paoking of goods obviates the necessity of occu pying the sidewalks fronting the store with bales and boxes, and is a most valuable improvement, worthy of general adoption. At tho north ex tiemity of the building, elevated several feet above the level of the galleries, is a suite of apartments, comprising a spacious parlor and bed chamber su perbly furnished, and having attached to them a store, a clothes, a dressing, and a washing and bath room. These apartments are occupied by two mem bers of the firm, and by means of a window cut in the south wall of the parlor, a view of the entire extent of the vast trade saloons is commanded. Tho entire edifice is heated by three immense furnaces, placed underneath the cellars, and is lighted by not less than four hundred and twenty nine gas-burners. The gas fixtures are exceeding ly beautiful. The arrangements for water and drainage are very superior. To afford some idea of tho extent of tho structure, we will state that it requires fourteen thousand square feet of roofing. The amount of gas consumed is very large, and as tho main on Market street could not afford a suffi cient supply, it was found necessary to have a special main extended down to the store from Arch street. The area of ground covered by the buildiug comprises no loss than 13,050 square feet, and the surface occupied, including the basement and the floors of tho galleries, amounts to upwards of 52><JGG square foot. We have never seen a building for the purpose constructed in a more substantial ond durable manner. There seems to bo nothing loft undone to combine strongth and durability, with the beauty and ingenuity of the arrangement. The stock of tho firm is the most extensive and best of tho kind in'tho country. It consists of silks, all descriptions of dross goods, of aU fabrics, ribands, locos, embroideries, all sorts of “ white goods,” gloves, hosiery, dress-trimmings and fringes, shawls, cloaks, and mantles, and all kind** of linens and furnishing goods. In Chestnut street, nenr tho corner of Eighth, and almost next to the Girard House, astutely building is in course of construction. A fow brief particulars may interest those who like to watch how our city is steadily adding tohertriready large number of handsome buildings. This particular one extends from Chestnut to Grape street, and is fifty feet front and °ue hundred and sixty-five deep. The main building is sixty-five feet deep, and four stories high; the book building is one hundred feet deep, And two stories high. The first story is twenty feet and the second ono is eighteen feet,high on the clear, which extend the entire depth. The third story is sixteen feet, and the fourth is fourteen feet in the clear, extending sixty-five feet in depth. The front on Chestnut street U designed in the Roman style of axohltoc lure, and Is to be of Connecticut brown stone from the-Portiand quarries. There will be a baloony on the second floor, extending the entire length of the building, and projecting four feet from the WftU, supported on richly-carved consoles. The key-stones of the arches, as well as the capitals of NOTICE TO, CfIBIIIFOXNDm, OorreapeadanSs far “Taw ?****’• vWjlmM tatf la ulnd the fallowing rales: ' ; Srsrjr eominaaio&fcion mast be name of the writer. In order to feasts tarHfejMg tfl* typography, hut one ride of a Jhaat written open. > t •. . * * , We shall be great!, obliged, to gantleaoft la Fttrari ranta and other states ter eootribaßoas girlag tfct ear rent new. of the da, In their jatUealtt IneaUßrs, tk resources of tho survouodizig coon toy, the iaereeee e population, and an/ information that will he to tbs general reader. ’ " ~ the columns of each story, an to be hndjsodr ornamented. The crooning cornice of the baildte* ie fo be bold and massive, trith a good projection fro> ■ the wall. The whole is to he surmounted by a blocking and balustrade, with m central panel and curved head, in which ia to be inscribed la raised letters the following, “Farainoa Bcunnra, 1857.” The front on Grape street is nearly com pleted. The firstatory is of cast iron, corresponding in style with the Croat. The upper part is being bttfit with pressed-brick, and is to be finished with aeor nice of moulded brick. second floor, the opening between wbich will be seventy-five feet in length'by twenty feet in width, supported on iron columns with ornamental caps. The rear portion of the store is to be lighted by fire large sky' UghW'on the roof of the’back baCding, end will be circular. There are to be three flight* of stairs from the £(?t to second story, tobeetmstraet* ed of black walnut, with heavy rail and balustrade' of the same material. The ceilings of the fink and second stories will be richly frescoed between the panels, which are to he formed by the intersection of the girders. The building throughout ia to be heated by a low-pressure steam apparatus, ’le.r. store is being erected by W. P. Fetridge, the well known book pnblisber of New York, to be occupied by Messrs. L. J. Levy & Co., and is lobe fitted uplu a handsome manner under their direction- The whole of the work' has been contracted for by Mr. 1 John Xitehsm.'thc well known builder of thisaity, apd isto he ootapleted by the Ist day cd smxt Jan ,nary. The designs were furnished byJohaFmer, j architect,-(dfPh&idelbhta,} Work Is besag done under his Superintendence^ GEN. PACKER THE POOR MJUrt nmß. [From the LyectaingGuatt*.] It is well known that while Speaker of thfSntt of Representatives, in 1849, Gen. Paekar/th* Democratic candidate for Governor, very materially by his iofiueooe.tontud qra mtt* mentof that cow popular measure, knows Wtbt “ Three Hondrcd Dollar Exemption Ae*.'* During the winter of 1850, it will alto be rememberedTw strenuous effort was made by persons who themselves aggrieved by the law, to havwH mh pealed; Gen. Packer was then in'tha Sonia, where be at once took the lead among then «to opposed a repeal. A remonstrate* tha law, numerously signed by his own being forwarded to him to present to tbat body, W complied with the request, aaoouraaajtngltwk the eloquent remarks which we publish befew, iSL . which the Philadelphia Sun, when pshUaUsC them, at the time, prefaced as “phuoathresfe, just, and truly Democratic ” We coedhaMly that theycontributedlargely t' prostrating fartfc**' efforts at repeal; and the poor unfortunate debtor and his dependent family now enjoy thftpmtiiwttoar which that humane law affords, and a sympathise : log pub! ic opinion sustains. I General Packer said r ‘ Mr. Speaker, I do-sot sympathize With thw prayer of the petition’l.have just pioniilwT 1/ do not believe that the law of last station will injure the il voor and middle classes* 7 off asm- ‘ , munUy. I. do not believe that by exempts* ifc* s lost three hundred dollars* worth nf fingeitj af ' the poor unfortunate debtor from levy andiola «a execution, and by driving from the doo# off poverty ‘ I and distress the sheriff and the eoastaW*, **#*4 on by a close-fisted, miserly, and heartless cwditosy that you injuriously affect the interests af tha poor. Sir, it cannot be true. Do you for '% >ment suppose that you would benefit th& “pao*. . and middle climes of <fomiaumty* v by snoetee. II their last article ot hoasehofd furniture—thiurlia bed—their last' etora-Wfi' 1 their lost cow—ta -jbw tender mercy of an uvarjelous creditor? If Senators entertain, puch an opinion, let .them comply with the prayer of the petitioners; and vote for tho repeal af the law of last session, toga* • , ther with all the exemption lavs previously cnaatr .ed, and they wIU promote the interests ot the pear and middle classes to the'hearts* content oftbs* i rich. Sir, so far from sympathizing with the peti tioners, T would extend the exemption law <further. And, permit me to say, whkh Ldo with' alt confidence, that the day is not for distant when ,it will bo carried further. The day ia dawning when every family will ho protected in their Uttlo [home, in defiance of thb bad conduct of au htiera* ‘perate father, or a profligate husband. The Aay Us coming—nay — it is fioir hefe, teJttn it vili to ' conceded that the man mitha comfortable,per -1 manent home, leifl mncA sooner pay Au A exist {debts lhaithe *»ha is almost distracted eaiih tm-' petiJingtrvu6ie-t,and who is ever at the mercy af. ' an execution. 1 Many of the States of this Union have led the way in this humane reform. Maine exempts a | homestead to the value of $5OO, and in tha ■fwtipne ■ |of a homestead, personal property to that amount, i Yennantexemptsfthomestea4tothevalaeofssotf. ‘ lows and Minnesota forty acres of InmLor a tot-. California exempts three twenty .acres of land or a lot worth'SSjOOO, DeMT*t l 'l£a > ; great Mormon State, it is s&ld. stouus a hmaa to t everyfamily. Ail tharitateaand.T«rruortoa ' have acted on this subject within the past few month 'Georgia, Texas. Michigan, Wisconsin, mid Coo neotumt, have long since enacted liberal exemption laws. New York, always among the foremost in popular reforms, is also pressing on in this mat* . ter. I have before me the annual message of i Governor Fish to the present Legislature at that i great State, to which I begleave to call the attett ' uon of Senators. On the snbject of homestead ex* iemption the Governor says: •' While it is admittedly a primary duty of the Legislature to enact laws for the punishment of vice, it is no less its duty to remove the cease* which frequently lead to the eomrcUaon nf crime- • The impressions made upon the youthful mind, by ithe gentle force of parental authority and example, and by the association of the family circle, are among the most active and enduring of the in fluences which control the conduct of after Ufo> .Much of the vice that we are called upon to de plore may he traced to the removal of its sub ject from the reach of that authority end example, and from the innocent but whetetame of a home, however humble. The e&sa* of morality, no less than the dictates of humanity, ' demands the preservation of the family drefe, . and the maintenance of the/amiYy home, os effi cient preventives of vice, ana sure and permanent' contributors to individual virtue and nappineas, and to public prosperity and order.” Such, Mr. 1 Speaker, are the views of tha Govar norof New York. They are the sentiments of a humane and far-seeing statesman; and I honor hha for his manly independence is giving them tha weight and sanction of his official station. Sir, t go with the Governor of the Empire State, t would secure to eveiy family a home and a hearth. I would not permit the covetous and hard’hearud - creditor to drive his unfortunate debtor, noted and penniless , out upon the cold charities of ast inhospitable world. The laws that authorise twsh a procedure should be blotted from the pages of the statute-books of every State In this using: they are repugnant to the spirit of the age, asn revolting tobumanity. Like the laws sanctioning Imprisonment for debt, they should be repudiated by every philanthropic legislator; they should exist but in the history of the past—an obsolete idea. It has been truly said, Mr. Speaker, that he who sells out the last little property of a. wife ssA family of small children, of a rash, heedless, of per haps intemperate bu3band and father, and after wards with a cheerful countenance goes home to dine—goes home to feast ox suvax bxaits! Sir, money thus obtained has a damning carea upon it! Entertaining these viow3, Mr. Speaker, I cannot go with those of my constituents who demand tb# repeal of the exemption law of last session; nor can I believe that any considerable number of them desire it. A Centenarian—lnteresting Incidents, On the Uth instant Captain Anthony Christy, keeper of the light-house at the mouth of the Chris tiana river, Delaware, celebrated hi; one hun dredth birthday by a public dinner, which was attended by aU his children, grand-children, and great-grand-ohildren, to tho number of forty, with their husbands and wives. About one hundred and fifty persons sat down to the table. The Delaware Gazette says: '•The venerable old captain, eroet as in youth, with a weather-beaten and broni&d, but not wrinkled face, sat at the head of the table, and enjoyed tho scene os much as any of the company. HU faculties arc unimpaired, and his senses acute, except somo deficiency of hearing. His wife, now over seventy. looks so well as o give promise of attaining to the same round age of her husband. The captain first visited America as a sailor in the ship Runaway, which camo over from Europe in with supplies sent by France, Germany, and. Prussia, and which, after having been ohased by British cruisers , succeeded in reaching Great Egg Harbor, and placing the supplies safely in the hands of General Washington. “Ho returned to Europe thd same year, and in 18i)7 came back to this country, landed at New Cas tle, and hr. 3 been a resident of 'Wilmington until the present time. During tho war of 1812 the captain commanded tho supply-boat which carried powder from the Dupont's works to tho various points where that important article was ordered by the Government, and many times was his littlo vessel chased by British cruisers, who kept a sharp look-out for all such craft, and for none more keenly than for Christy’s powder-boat. **Mr. Guthrie,the late Secretary of the Treasury, made him keeper of the CbrbtianaLight, and from the condition of tho lantern ; and everything else about tho place, it is evident that the post is wall filled. Mr. Cobb has continued him ia that pod tiou. Ho is 'certainly a remarkable man, and doubtless owes much of his present health to his uuiforrr sobrioty, not having tasted intoxicating liquorcr used tobacco for fifty years, and having always lived with much simplicity of diet.” The August Elections, The returns from the bulk of the August elections are to hand, and the result may be described in a sentence as a great triumph for tho Democratic party. In Kentucky and other States where the' nativo Americans recently held the preponderance, they are now almost out of the question. The De mocrats have swept everything before them. State elections occurring within a year or so after the in auguration of a new President are usually favorable to the Administration. Men take little Interest, u a rule, 1& State politics; and until the Federal Government displays gross inefficiency, are prepar ed to give it a fair trial. At the same time ft l* but just to tho President to say that, independently of considerations of this kind, the public feeling hA* set strongly in his favor. Throughout the country he enjoys the confidence of the conservative class. And he has been materially strengthened with the sensible men of .a)) parties by the foolish ; which have been made upon' him and upon all parties by the extremists of both sections, and es pecially of the South.— Harper's Weekly. Geo. E. Humphries, of tho Coast Survey, was drowned near * Bath, Me., on Thursday. Mr. Humphries resided In Cambridge, Mass, ue was a promising young man, about twenty-one years old, and was highly esteemed by hu acquaiat ancee.
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