The press. (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1857-1880, September 22, 1857, Image 4
msiiias: il*/Prei?nt AH»i»g* aud CoifcU- By<3KAYi>9ABD' Ot the-mapy .benpyohmt .institutions of Tfhich feasyiyaiiWway>»y boast, the Pennsylvania bo Bt ?* ed . tho first WtieltieY'wo contemplate it with respeot toils •tkenoblo andcbcrished nnmosof themeuby consummate wisdom ami judiaiouJ jbonerolenbe with which it is man aged,iV,ts Mjkba monument of interest to oar oiti sehßj claims afc once their odmira tion.i>r3i3e,"andyratitu(le. ; 1 ; ‘N<rm6lt4r howlittle U may he a compliment,, it that tho vast iia are lamentably .ignorant, of 1 the character and 1 doings of many of out noblest institutions —chari- table Conscious'oF this neglect on ' .myowh pari, the above-named institu ■ tion, a few days since, anil through the kindness aqdcpurteay.of the steward, "Wra. G. Malin, Esq., to make a close cxamin&tionof all itejpartvfrom the subterraneous vaults two stories under ground, to tho towering cupola which sur mounts the edifice. ‘.The conducting of the institution is under tho ■ direction of twelve managers, elected, as ex -1 pressed,in the original charter, on the first Monday of JJlay, yearly, forever. 'A treasurer is also elected, at tho sumo time, Tho officers appointed by tho managers aro four physicians^'four sur geons, three resident physician's, a steward, a ma * Iron, und one apothecary; > ; ... _ , From the last annual report of tho managers for ’ the yfcar ending-April 25th, 1857, T am permitted to‘extract tho following highly interesting par ticulars: v* Tlie' tbtaPoxponditUros for tho year amounted to $34,864.33, tho items.of. which may bo grouped undv'f eight general heads, viz : Tho medical do' partraent; household, expenses, (food, d 0.,) alone amounting to. .nearly. $14,000; [furniture,' fool, light, and waslungj-lire stock; repairs, improve ments, &e.‘: salaries and wages J. medical library, &c. ; and/ expenditures for 1 patients to beropaid. , Those expenses wero fully met' by the reoelpfcs of ' tho institution, and left on th’e.day of the report a _ Wince of $172.29 in tho hands of the treasurer. [ ' ; FfOin*an abstract of the .cases treated during the year, it appeal there were ib the surgical depart raont,ll2o, of which 1595 wero cured, and 80 died; of the romaindoT, 172 wore partially relieved, 111 remained in thb institution at the date of the re port* iho others having either ibeen removed by their friends, dtseharged for misconduct, or eloped. 1 The’greatest numbcr.'of- f dasoB in this department were fractures oftbe inferior extremities, of, which there weroTOS; only four of which were fatal, Tho i greatest number of deaths from any. one. class of injuries, wero 14; these wore from burns and scalds. In. foe.' medical department there wero 705 cases ,treated, of which 06 died, 374 were cured, 148 ro iieved,;and the reranindcrothcrwiso removed, ex cepting 55, which were, BtiU retained ,di the d&te, of-tfio -report.’ Tho greatest number un der, this head wore rhoumatios, of which there * 127 in all, and 15 of thorn fatal. >' .. The diseases resulting most fatally was. phthisis,- of which there wero in all 75' cases and 23 deaths; and—what Seems rattier remarkable-^ not 'one,tin gle enrei partial relief and removal by friends ac counting for tho remaindor. Of the 1120 and all—treated during tho year, 1080’ Were admitted within the twelvo’ months, and 151 retained from the previous-year. l ! Of thi£ gross'humber 658 were pay-patients jifid 1173 poor. ; The average number of patients in the institution throughout' Iho year was. 150, tho avorago time.of treatments each haying boon 31 days.*. Tho'oxoct proportion of patients cured Was ‘ C4;20 per conk,- whilst tho proportion of deaths was but 9.13 per cent. Of tho' 1680 admitted 1 withintho year, thore wore 1377 males, and 303 females, 944 of tho wholo numbor having been single adults... The caaso of this large prepon derance of male pationts is readily accounted for in the faet that a very largo proportion of hospital cases are of a surgical character, and as the avo cations oftbo, otticy sex seldom load them into positions incurring bodily danger, the breaking of hones and crushing of limbs is with them compara tively a nmttfcV of soldom occurrence. Then again, the very largo proportion of single adults is also easily explained in thomoro general homeless con dition of.this class; especially Js this true of our young men, many of whose'parents ore not resi dents in tho city. , Of tho ''nativity of tho 1,080 patents admitted within tho year, it appears 594 wero born in the United States;. 781. in -Ireland, 111 in Germany; 83ih. England, and tho remaining 111 in twenty four[different—principally transatlaolfo—countries. To; realize at a glance the thousands of sufferers which this benevolent institution hoar been tlie means of biasing; with restored health, do., since its establishment* in tho year-1752, it may bo sta ted; that during this interval of one hundred and. five year?,' thero have been admitted into it, 61,- . 59Q t patients, of,whom 55,902 Have been poor per -7,162 relieved;'4,Bll removed withoutmaferifllJml prov6ment; 1,442 eloped and discharged< for mi£- concluoti'l,3«u pregnant womuamfaly delivered; 1,250 infants; bora In the* Hospital, and 5,038. died,’ leaving 100 rejnaining in tho Hospital at, the date • of .this estimate,.'. - : 'V- / Of the 22,30,0 patients admitted daring tho, last fifteen yVdw, it appears from tbe record that 8,609 irare born in-the United States, 10,175 in Ireland, and 3,516 in alt other epuntries. / . . V(/f the. construction and * arrangement of tho building itself, there can scarcely be too muoh said in its- favor., ,As its original design merely-em braced that portion which now forms the oast wing of the building, its dimensions have been greatly enlarged; yet, notwithstanding that a century had elapsed stnee tho cornor-stonojof that noblo' edifice wasloid, jadioioas ovorscers were so far up to thetimes in which they lived, that when done, it was.so complete in all its parts as to render the gradual introduction of all .the modern' improve ments a work of comparative ease. In tho fait of 1753, the original'part of, .the building was so far 'conipieted ihatpatienta were admitted, and the , ■ victims of sudden accident, instead of being left to tho.raercies of chance, maimed Sv porhaps, for life,' or perishing from want of suitable aid,,had now ready‘access to .the best skill and necessary ap piiai&cs;tiat .human agency could afford. This tfojt;.no ’ stn&tl achiovemont in those early days of Amerioan thrift and enterprise, for a town number ing at the time less, than twonty thousand inhabi tants. ... • . 1 y .For (he benefit of strangers to bar city, a foil description of tho flppoarunco of tlio hospital build-, lag and its beautiful grounds might ho Interesting, though, would perhaps Consume an nnvrar* rantaMoaiaoont ofspaeo in this presontconneotion, 1 most avoid it, trusting that at least every Philo* delphion, ttKo has not yet availed himself of a visit'tb this time-honored institution, will do so'at his qariiest convenience, os ho will ccrtainlydomo aWay a wiser, if not a hotter man, for having dono so. * - 1 v ~Tho entrance for visiters iahy tho passago-way on Eighth street, mid-way between Bpruce and Pine; after entering which wo pais along on tho right of the main building to a flight of war blo stops loading to tho great central hall, and which WO proceed through to tho lost door on tho right hand siclo, which is the door to the steward’s room,. -Mr. Maim line occupied bis present position as steward; for thirty-three years, and certainly reflects great credit upon tho discrimination of thoeo by whom Jiis appointment was made. Ho has not only tho advantogo of possessing, all tlio requisite qualifications to make a flrst-rnto officer,. but ho exhibits tho virtue so rarely retained by persons long in.similar positions, of being emV. na'ptly courteous and polite to an inquisitive vi siter. , , . . Xdrcctly opposite to the steward’s apartmonts if the to the .apothecary department of the es£obHshih«'d,whichls largely supplied with aU the medical ingroditoto used iti the allopathic prac tidof room in with, a finely oxef ented painted portrait of-pir Astley Cooper, aoele-, brated physician of England, also two metallic busts’ of Xtootora Rush and Wiatar. Pasting through Uio.inain. central halltothe ooutward, we enter tho surgioal department of the male wards; on entering whioli'tho practical design of tho in stitution is more vividly realised. On either side of the long air Jr room extends a row of twenty beds, ori many W which ato/reclinlng tho Unfortunate but woll-takcn-earo-of victims of shattered limbs,’ fractured bones, wpunds, bruises, anduU such in juries,as require the surgeon's skill The moans ,of Ventilation in this apartment, and which is a type of aU the stories in both wings of tho esta blishment, are'two long,rows nf hollow flutod columns, so constructed as to' answer )at onco tho double purpose of lioai and ventilation. , ■ Each,ward iMs its own sot of-nursos; asm&ll fire-proof apartment for special cooking, - (tho general cooking for tho establishment being per formed in a Urge,,Commodious, and-admirably arrunged kitchen at tho western end of the build ing.;) a tt aining room for patient belonging to the.wnxd, who hove: sufficiently 'recovered to bo ablff'tovtoKo'' ihetr-in&als! at tho'tobies, of whom there j»mp .ton .or. twelve to every ward of forty. /Every ward' is also supplied with Whafe bo termed a Bub-opotb<joary-room ' contaiqing\such. -necessary articles of- medicine as V ; demand; also a well-. of«omo two hundred volumes, for the use and amusement" of convalescent Inmates, tfnd i'bhfo-yoom, 'tfa'tqr* closets, kt. . ;J». nu adjoining ward io (ho one above referred ’ , to,' containing twelve heda, I fouiid eleven patiente, - anil by .'ft eiugtt!iir;'«iihefdeuco evoiy oiie of the - ' eloveu wore .thefj( ex : tremilies Adjoining, this apartment is a kind of . ■ recess,-whips ‘is; occupied by a hatchwhy used in ■.bowing patients .who are’; admitted, lit to the estab lishment, intoany of the upper tooina; It i 9 ngo( | . ' leotore-room.in V, • th *. buildingj with ab little fa. ' '-C” tigno as poffliblo. ■ Thjei isjbfl'Mted by plnoinga bid .; -J i ‘.Bj&Vftdwg* (platfpnh, *. - .-V r fuU. wmohby the libistingmswjhinery io then steadily , raised to the floor intended, f -i ' The second. story, immediately. oyer the .wards already referred tojalsp contains forty beds, hod is ocunpiod'by sick males. In this room wo no ticed that over tho head of each oooopiod. bod wasaoard inserted in a.small frame* containing tho patient’s name, the date of bis being registered, and tbo'disease from whioh he was suffering Iron spring-bedsteads are tbe kind used throughout the building,-and everything oonneoted with the bedding arrangements presents an appearance of oloanliness and attention highly crcditablo to tho management of the institution. ' In the largo open hall in the second story, cor responding to the great ball of entrance from the north on tho 'first floor, are the portraits of Dr. Rush and S&muol Coates, painted by Sully, both really'admirable' specimens of .that celebrated artist’s skill. Passing across this hall, we enter the hospital library; This itself Is yrell worth a visit, aud would, without reforonce to any other point of in terest, furnish acapital theme for an interesting newspaper articlo.. But,a moro glnnoe at it must suffice. It contains ten thousand five hundred volumes on the subject of medicine and ,its colla . total sciences.. Those woxkß have all been pur ohtised with the fees received from the medical students, who have from time to time attended the hospital lectures. Among the most ancient of tbis extensive collection, I was shown what is believed to‘.be the first Cyolopedia ever published. This work was printed in the year 1612, in the Batin language, and in tho old English letter. Some of its passages .are odd enough, especially one to whioh my attention wasballed, in whioh the author, three and a half centuries ago, was gravely ■expatiating upon tho subjoot of oraniology— a most ludicrous anticipation of a subject whioh Dr. Gall three hundred years later unfolded to the world as a most important and olevating science under the title of phrenology. Tho author and compiler of this singular production—-a German—"is set down as “ Auotore Grogoria Reish,” of Argentorato, (Stmburg.) Its title is “Margarita Phitoßophioa,’ ’ (Pearls of Philosophy), , jphis room is also occupied as the meeting room of tho Board of Managers. The leoturo room of the institution is in the central part of the third story of tho building, and Is of a capacity to seat comfortably two hundred and fifty students, though there are not unfrequently aa many as three hun dred in attendance, during the, winter term.. . AH cases requiring surgical operation, thataro brought’ to the hospital—provided their natnro is such as to admit of delay without any disadvantage to tho •patient—are reservedforoperatlon in the presence of tho class. The apartments of the throo rosldent attending physicians are well supplied with all the necessary I surgical instruments. In ono of these apartments I noticed on extensive. collection of speoimens of diseased parts of subjects who have died in the ’ Hospital preserved in spirits, some of whioh are really horrifying to look upon., . • There is also in the* library—whioh I neglected to mention —a book of colored representations of some of tho most frightful and appaling diseases that hitman flesh is heir to. This book, which is , the work-of a Russian, was imported from Franco at a coSt of orio hundred dollars. The oases, of hideous, cancors, Scrofulous oruptions and deform ing tumors, thcroln portrayed with tho artist’s pencil,- aflordod to mymind another forcible proof that death is indeed a bonefloent institution, in freeing tho wrotohed' victim from thb dreadful ravages of such terrible diseases, and to which wo aro ail liable. How forciblo indeed do exhibitions liko this im press tho thoughtful mind with tho comparative wealth which we all possess'whilst in tho enjoy- ment of health, no matter what in ay bo our pecu niarycircumstances in life; for certainly no one will deny that next injmportanco to the salvation of the soul,.is the hoalth of tho body; but, alas! how ungrateful we are (in the enjoyment of one, and, in too many oases, how sadly indifferent about securing the other! From tho cupola of the Hospital a very satisfac tory and extensive view of the central and northern portions of tho city is presented to the eye. Whilst here, wo may remind theheader, in pass- ing, that, whon the Pennsylvania Hospital was built, .tho site upon whioh it stands was considered a groat way oat of town, ‘ and was usually ap- proached by a direct path from tho city loading across open fields; and oven us la to as thirty years ago there were very few streets paved as low down or as far out as this point, 1 and tho few houses whioh wero scattered in a southwestern dirootion beyond it were easily counted; and yet the im mense strides of our city in that quarter have beem moro than equalled by the growth of other quarters which we might name. Descending from tho cupola, without even naming the many points of special interest which there arrestour attention, we pass down and through the female department of tho institution, which, as already intimated, is much less numerously oc- cupied, from the fact that basualtles form by far the greater proportion, of daily secessions to the institution, there having been of the Utter olaes an average of no less than two per day for the last four months. ' This is regarded as a large average, considering that two other hospitals have gone into "operation within tho lastfew years—the Episcopal at Richmond, and the fit. Joseph’s, at Green Hill cases daily occurring in their respective vicinities. There is, indeed, much reason for supposing that bodily accident* are annually increasing in & greater proportion than our increase in population. (Can it be that tho fast habits of the very fast ago in whioh we live are Inducing a'greater reckless ness with regard to tho hazarding of life and limb ?) It may here bo stated as corroborative of the aboro remark, that the present season withns has been'one of unusual healthiness, nor have there been any wholesale accessions to our hospitals by any such fearful catastrophes as, for example, tho Burlington and .North Pennsylvania Railroad ac cidents ; * yet notwithstanding this, the Hospital is quite as well filled as usual at this season of the year', and that mainly by patients for tho surgical [department. • proceeding westward from tho female depart ment, by a subterraneous passage, we enter the “boiler room.” To ,avoid tho dangers of confla gration, as mnoh as possible, thero ftro no fires em ployed for hoating purposes throughout tho entire Hospital building, all tho rooms in it being warmed by steam, by means of pipes leading from tho boil ers into every part of the establishment, and whioh steam, after having served its purpose] is condensed : and descends into a largo pipe, and is again re turned to tho boiler. Tho point, of tomporaturo prescribed by the physicians of the institution, and usually maintained, is sixty-eight degrees Fahren heit. The two boilors employed for this purpose are;,{ubalar,of twenty feet longtb, each, and in addition to tho warming and cooking purposes to which they are applied, they also supply the mo tive power of a six-horso power ongiuc, in an ad joining apartment, which, besides being used in tho laundry department, is also employed in pumping water into large tanks at tho top of the building— it having boon found by experience, that the water in the Fairmount basin is high onoqgh for all pur poses theoretically, but not practically! Tho groat washing machine employed in this es tablishment is deoijledly the roost complote and in genious piece of inoobanism of its class'tliatl have over examined.. Tho great tub, or churn, into which the olothes are placed, is about aix feet in length, with a diameter of five feet. It has a small door in ono end of it for the admission of clothes to be washed; aftor receiving which, the cold water, hot water, or steam, os they may bo required, are admitted by moans of pipes attached for that purpose; tho bands axe then attached to the pullies, and the machine is set in motion, which is so arranged as to make eight revolutions each way, alternately, v with great rapidity. When this operation has boon continued long enough, tho Buporfluous water is ejected from tho vessel by means of a. valve for that purpose, after which the washed clothes are removed and placed into a wringer no less complete in its character than the waahor itself. The drying department of the laundry is. also very efficiently arranged; though, os‘the patients are generally biased in favor ,of air-drying, lines in the open yard are always used for that purpose when tho weather .will admit of it. There aro a multitude of other points of interest, :to which I should gladly refer were it not for tho already protracted length of this Sketch. The part of the institution devoted to colored persons and oases of venoroal diseasosisdetochod/rom the main building about fifty yards, though pationts of the lattor.clflss aro never admitted Into tho hospital at all,, excepting cases of homeless sailors. But ! must not dopoludo without apaesingglance ofc one or two speolal points in the garden depart ment of this beneficent institution. The grounds, as the most'casual passer-by will ,doubtless have observed, are every way beautiful and attractive, and must be exceedingly wooing to the convalescent patient, after enduring for wceks upon a couch of agony, surrounded on all sides with fellow-sufferers. There aro, howovor, very properly, portionsof tho grounds to which .the patients are not admitted, ; though both the males and females of the Hospital hare ooch a apace in the ample yard allotted to them Snffioiohtly 'capacious and luxuriant for all practical purposes,- «.. ■ Tho choice floral beds which decorate a portion of these grounds,exhale their volatile odors so fra grantly ‘ that tho entire enclosure is really scented with their doUghtful fames, and any one haring a desiro to realize, as practically ns possibly, tho two oxtremcß of human' suffering and human enjoy ment, in the shortest period of time, can probably find »° bettor opportunity for having hisdosiro ™2iUitoi byw,ng •'“* to *»*«*?. There isa. be aia uf a j, g , accful olm , n thh omlosure, whioh is deservedly pointed out to tho h t ' in f n r .. aa * spoernl- feature, on aecouut of its being o Jineal descendant from tho old otm treo .in Konsington, under which tho immortal founder * Singularly onough ithns happened, that ho. ••' «; ‘ i- ;'rt *, • V*’ f *. THE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER* 22, 1857. of Philadelphia made his treaty with the Indians in the autumn of 1082. Jt appears,-whon the old Elm was blown down In 1810, a Mr. Peter Brown, of Kensington, outasoion from its branches and planted it in a port of the Pennsylvania Hospital grounds, on tho west sido of Ninth street. But ns those grounds woro sold by the institution in 1830, and seoing that tho scion of tho old tree was now likely to bo demolished at tho hands of brick and mortar improvement, Mr. Ma lin repaired to the young, tree, out several scions from it, and planted them in tho prosont Hospital grounds, of whioh, howevor, there was but one that grew, and a boautiful tree it is—in no way un worthy of its distinguished ancestor. A very rare specimen of a tree is hore also shown—tho Giuko, an oxotio imported from Japan. From tbe fine, healthy condition of a few of theao trees in Green wood Cemetery, it is evident that ourclimate is not uncongenial to its growth. There aro also sovoral luxuriant fruit trees in tho Hospital yard, among which are two English walnuts, and a Sicklo po&r | yet, from tho depredations of a rauch-praised pot, recently introduced as an additional attraction to our public squares, nouo of the fruit on eitbor of these frees is allowed to mature. The squirrels from Washington Square aro tho depredators in this instance, and their villanous use, or raf&or abase, especially of the pear, is curious enough. Beneath the tree aro bushels of the unripe fruit, each pear being cut in half with almost as muoh nicety os if tho operation had beon performed with a knife, and from which tho seeds are extracted; tho seeds alone constituting the gustatory booty that attracts the incursions of these quadruped filibusters. Directly opposite to the corthom entrance is a neat monument orooted to tho memory of Charles Nicholas, who was a large bonefactor to tho insti tution, and died in 180 T. There aro very strong evidences, howevor, that tho money ho donated was merely so much paid to purchaso, to a cer- the exemption of his dead body from the table of the dissecting-room. I have not space to narrate tho partioulars. By tho sido of Nioholas, or at least within the distauco of a few feet, reposo tho remains of tho wife of Stephen Girard, unmarked* by even tho humblest tombstone.' To • most of our readers it is known that this unfortunate lady died in the insane department of this in stitution* after a confinement in it of twenty-six years. But it is a foot not generally known, that Stephen Girard, some years before his death, whilst walking through the grounds of tho Hospital, in conversation with Thomas F. Cope, remarked to tho lattor, that when he died ho wished to bo in terred bosido the remains of his wifo; though tho by no means flattering antecedents of Girard to wards his wife, and the fact of his specifying no eaoh request in his will, afford probably sufficient reason to show that it had been mcroly ovanosoent on his part; at any rato, as ovory ono knows, this request was never regarded. I have thus allndod to tho Pennsylvania Hospi tal rather lengthily; yet if tho reader is not amply rewarded in its perusal, from first to last, tho fault will cortainly be with tho writer, and not with his subjoot, as the institution itself is ono in which many of our beßt and most Influential citliens are deeply interested, and toward whioh thore aro, perhaps, none of any intolligcnco who feel an en tire indifferonoo. The History of this Institution , in whioh will be incorporated some very pleasing allusions to many names which Philadolphians'are proud to number among their ancestors, will constitute tho subject of a futuro article. Site proof -Safes, gAL AM ANDES SAFES. A largo assortment of EYANB & WATSON’S PHILADELPHIA MANUFACTURED SALAMANDER BASKS, VAULT DOORS, For Bank* and Storoa. BANK LOOKS, Eqaal to any now In nso. IRON DOORS, SHUTTERS, &0., On as good terms as anr other establishment In the United States, by EVANS Sc WATSON, No. 28 Booth FOURTH street, Philadelphia. atuB»tf PLEASE GIVE US A CALL. {Dancing SUabcmics. C BROOK’S DANCING ACADEMY, N. • K. corner EIGHTH 'and SPRING GARDEN. Fashionable Dancing taught in less time, and for leas money, than anv other Acadomy in the city. Day* of Tuition, for Children, MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and SATURDAYS, from 2tosp. m. Torms ?5 per quarter. Ladies, MONDAYS and FRIDAYS, from 0 to 8. Terms $6 per quarter. Ladies aud Genta from Bto 10. Gen* tlemen beginner* Tuesdays and Thursdays, from 7 to . Terms $O. aelo*lvr# Dancing academy.—naylor & DAUGHTER’S DANCING ACADEMY, TENTH and SOUTH streets, commencing TUESDAY, September 1,1857. The subscribers, in offering this prospectus to the dancing community, rospectfully acknowledge their kindness during past seasons, and pledge themselves that nothing shall be wanting ou their part to make the coining season surpass in' brilliancy that of former years. Mr. N. and Daughter have, with untiring exertions, added to their already full list of fashionable dances, many new ones, which irill he introduced daring the season. DAYS OF TUITION. For Children—Tuesday and Saturday Afternoons from Bto 5 o’elock; for Ladies and Gentlomen— I Tuesday and Saturday Evenings from 7 till 10 o’clock. an 27*3m 461 ft $l2, $lO, SI2.—OWING TO THE OpAl/a GREAT SUCCESS attending the salo of WATSON’S $lO FAMILY SEWING MACHINE, th© subscriber has secured larger accommodations for it* sale and exhibition. He nos leased tbo commodious roora No, 814 CHESTNUT street, second 6oor, where they are now open for the inspection of the public. JNO. B. MoMULLIN, «©lO-tf . 814 CHESTNUT street, above Eighth. A GOOD SEWING MACHINE.—HUNT, WEBSTER, k. Co., beg respectfully tojiutroduce themselves to the public as the manufacturers of the IMPROVED SEWING MACHINE adapted to manufacturing or family purposes. Free from the objections which hare been urged against those already known in this market, THIS MAOHINE COMBINES THE GOOD QUALITIES OP THEM ALL. and will Vo suro to commend itself, upon examination, to families, tailors, saddlers, shoemakers, and seamstresses: Those in want of A GOOD ARTICLE, that will make a handsome lock-stitch, work WITH LITTLE NOISE, that will HEM, BIND, STITCH. RUN, or GATHER} Indeed, that will giro ontlro satisfaction even after they hate been used tor years, are invited to call at our rooms, 108 South BIG Ill'll Street, up stairs. HUNT, WEBSTER, & Co. Sewing of every description executed in the beat pos sible manner, and on reasonable terms. Samples of our work sent by mail to any part of the United States. au22-tuths 3m. fUerrlimU (Sailors. Edward p. kelly. X>ATB KELLY it BROTHER, Having encaged the services of ' CHARLES ROTH, Distinguished for the beauty and excellence of his .Goods when in the Tailoring Business, has taken the Store. 814 CHESTNUT STREET, AKD SlB QPBNED FQS TUB «Atß, AT ttBTAtL. OF CLOTHS. OASSIMERK3, VESTINGS, CRAVATS, GLOVES, SHIRTS, Ac., Of the boat qualities, at moderate prices. cy The business of KELLY & BROTHER is re moved, from this date, to No. 814 CHESTNUT Street, where it will bo attended toby EDSY’H B, KELLY or JOHN P. DOHERTY. sco-ly JOHN P. DOlimTf; FOR TBAB3 WITH KBLT.T & BROTHER, LATE WITH LUKENS, KELLY & 00., HAVING ENGAGED CHARLES ROTH, Formerly the leading Tailor or this City; and M. KAYSEH, Formerly with 0. KOTII Sc CO., late Coat and Vesl Outter with LUKENS, KELLY A CO., and other supe rior CutteTa, has rented a part of the store of EDW'D. P. KELLY, 814 OHKSNUT STREET, And has commenced the TAILORING BUSINESS. The most unremitting attention will be paid to the wishes of all who patronise the establishment; the best of Clothes will bo made, and at moderate prices. [ses»y JAMES SHERIDAN, MERCHANT TAILOR, Nos. 10 and!B South NINTH STREET, ABOVE CHESTNUT. ’ A large and well selected stock of CLOTHS and OABSIMERKB always op hand. All Clothing made at this Establishment will bo of the best quality, and in the most fashionable stylo. Particular attention given to UNIFORM CLOTH ING. au6*tf PKOFOSALS FOE SUPPLIES. Quabtbrmastbr’s Office Mari.nk Oonpg, 'Washington, Sopfc. 17,1357. SEALED PROPOSALS wljl bo received at this ofllco until# o’clock, p. m., on Thursday, tlio 22d October, 1857, for supplying the marine com with the following articles during the fiscal year ending 80th Juuq. 1858, viz: 500 to 800 uniform caps, complete. 1,000 to 2,000 marine pompoona 1,000 to 2,000 patent-leather Blocks. 600 to 800 privates’ uniform coats, complete, of navy blue cloth, indigo dye—.to he chemically tested. 60 to 100 sergeants’ uniform coats, (sarao as above.) 60 to 100 musicians’coats, scarlet cloth, cocbinoal dyo—to be chemically tested. 200 to 200 pairs non-commissioned officers' epau lettes. 600 to 800 pairs brass centre straps. 80 to 60 red worsted sashes. 3,000 to 2,ooopairs linen overalls. 1,000 to 2,000 linen abirts. 2,600 to 3,000 pairs brogaus, Nos. 6 to 11. 500 to 80 i marine blankets, (gray.) 600 to 800 knapsacks. ' 1 2,600 to 3,000 pairs woollen socks. 600 to 800 marine fatiguo caps, the cloth to he navy biuo, indigo dye, aud chemically tested. 600 to 800 fatigue frocks, 1,000 to 1,600 liannel shirts. 600 to 1,000 pair* woollen overalls, blue kersey 600 to 1,000 woollen Jackets, do X ' 800 to 600 watch or great coats, do. 600 to 1,000 pairs Canton Manuel drawers 85 to 60 musicians’ jackets, scarlet cloth, coebi* „ , „,, neal dye—to be chemically tested. Batnplos or the above articles maybe seen on aunU cation at this office, or at tho o/Tico of the assistant quartermaster marine corps, 169 Spruce street, Phila delphia. It is to bo understood that tho accepted bidder is to take all material used for manufacturing coats, overalls &c., onhand at tho time of entering into contract ai, tho contract prices thereof, 1 Bids will be recoived lor tho whole or in parts for the articles required, and it must be explicitly understood that» critical inspection will bo given all articles fur ni»bed as toflUnd quality, and that articles which do not coroe up to the sample will bo rejected and thrown upon the hands of the contractor. The quartermaster reserves to himself tho right to Increase or diminish tho quantity named abovo, ns the exigencies or interests of the service may demand. Proposals to bo addressed to the “Qnartorraaster of tho Marine Corps,” Washington, D. 0., and endorsed “Pro posals for Supplies.” The papers publishing this advertisement will good the paper containing insertion to this office for examination, accompanied by a dupilcato account of tho expense—at the rate of 75 cents for 800 oms first inser tion. and 37# cents per 800 ems for all subsequent In sertions,' ' so 19-stulht()22 T r~ /"IOTTON—IOO bales Gull' Cotton, - in store v ani lot sals tar JtABTIN A HAOAMSTEIt, U> North Wstst StreJt,.a iHiocellmieona. lOCAL FREIGHT NOT 10 E—T H E J PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY are now prepared to receive and forwurd FREIGHT between Philadelphia, Lancaster, and Columbia, at the following rates nor hundred pounds: " BETWEEN I‘IIILA. AND COLUMBIA. First Olass. Soeond Class, Third Class. Fourth Class. 22 eta. 18 cts. lOcts. Ucts. yioar, 28 cte. per barrel, Pig metal, 10 cts. per 300 pounds. BETWEEN PIIILA. AND LANCASTER. First Clean. Second Claes. Third Olsbs. Fourth Class. 20 cts. 17 cts. 15cte. '.13 eta. Flour, 25 cts. per barrel; Pig Metal, 10 cts. per 100 pound** ARTICLES OP FIRST OLAB3. k Books, Froah Fißh, 1 boots and Shoes, Nuts in bags, » Cedar and Wooden Wore, Porter and Ale iu bottles, Dry Goods, Poultry in coops, Eggs ' Pork, (fresh,) Furniture, Poultry, (dressed.) Feather*, Wrapping Paper. ABTIOLE9 OP 2d CLASS. Apples, Molasses, Cheese. Melons, Clover and Grass Seed, Oils la casks or barrels, Crockery, Paper In boxoß, Caudles, Pasteboard, Casks or Barrels, (empty,) Peaches, (dried,) Groceries, Printing Paper, Guus and Rifles, Paper Hangings, Herring in boxes aud kegs, liueenswaro, Hardware, Sweet Potatoes, Hops, Tobacco in bales, Iron, hoop, band, or sheet, Tea, Leather, Type, Liquor in wood, Tallow, Marble Slabs and Marble Turpentine, (Bptfl.i) Monumoots, Varnish. ARTICLES OF 3d CLASS. Alcohol, ’ Potatoes, >. Coffee, Turnip 3, , Hides, (green,) Vinegar, ! Lard, White Lead, 1 Oysters & Outran, (in shell) Window Glass, I Tobacco, (manufactured,) ARTICLES OP 4th CLASS. Rosin, Salt, Tobacco, (leaf,) Tin, ’ Tar, Whiskey, Oodflab, Cotton, Fish, aalted, Grain of all kinds, Nails ami Spikes, Pitch, Plaster. fT/~ For farther information apply to 11. J. SNKEDEH, Freight Agent, Phila. E, K. BOIOK, Froight Agent. Columbia. aol3] "W. U. MYERS, Freight Agent, Lancaster. Homestead for $2,001 lakh his- TIUBUTION! S OHANOH *OR POOR MBN J» The Northwestern Mutual Land Benefit Association will make a grand distribution of $30,000 worth of rc&l ostftto and maps to its members. The number of mem* bent is limited to 15,000. $2.00 and fire letter stamps per membership, or a share. Any individual sending $lO and the stamps, ahull be entitled to slxWsres; or any person sending $lO with six nJjmes, wHbtbe&ddrets of each, carefully writton, shall be entitled to six shares. The distribution will be made In Ohlcago, Sept. 25th, 185 T. The following Is the real estate to bo distributed Mo. 1. An Improved farm of 80 acres la Cooke Co., Illinois, aluod at $3,000 No. 2. An Improved farm of 160 acres In White aides Co., Illinois, valued at No. 8. An improved farm of 100 acres In White sides Co., Illinois, valued at N 0.4. AnexcellentprivateresidenteinDabuque, lovra, valuod at 3,000 No. 6. 100 acres superior farm land in Cooke Co., Illinois, valued at 2,000 No. 0. 160 acres well pine timbered In Waupacea Co., Wisconsin, valued at 2,000 No. 7. A good lot and cottage residence In Chi cago, Illinois, valued at No. 8. 150 acres superior land in Whiteside* Co., Illinois, valued at 1.000 No. 0. 160 acres good land in Chlppewny Co., Wisconsin, valued at 960 No. 10. ICO acres good land in Ohlppeway Co., Wisconsin, valued at PQO No. 11. 100 acres good land in Chippoway Co., . Wisconsin, valued at 800 Np. 12. 100 acres good land in Dunn Co., Wis consin. valued at 800 No. 13. 80 acres good land in Marshall Co., loWa, valued at 600 No. 14. 80 acres good land In Marshall Co , lowa, valued at 600 No. 16. 80 acres good land in Blarshall Co,, lowa, valued at 000 , N 0.16. 40 acres good land in Marshall Co., lowa, valued at 30 0 No. 17, 40 acres good loAd in Linn Co., lowa, val ued at 300 No. 18. 40 acres good land In LinnOo., lowa, val -1 ued at SOO No. 19, 40 acres good land In Linn Co., lowa, val ued at 800 No. 20. One building lot In Dubuque, lowa, val ued at 800 No. 21. Ono building lot in Sterling, Illinois, valued at 800 No. 22. One building lot In Sterling, Illinois, valued at “ 800 No. 28. One building lot in Sterling, Illinois, valued at 800 No. 24. 40 acres farm land In Grant Co., Wiscon sin, valued at 800 No. 25. 40 acres farm land In Grant Co., Wiscon sin, valued at 800 No. 26. 40 acres land In Grant Co , Wisconsin, valued at 240 No. 27. 40 acres land In Grant Co., Wisconsin, valued at 240 No. 28. 40 acres land in Crawford 00., Wisconsin, valued at 200 No. 29. 40 acres land in Crawford Co., Wisconsin, valued at 200 No. SO. 40 acres land in GrawfordCo., Wisconsin, valued at 200 No. 31. 40 acres land In Monroe Co., Wisconsin, valued at 200 No. 82. 40 acres land in Monroe Co., Wisconsin, valued at 200 No. S 3. 40 acres laud In Jackson Co.. Wisconsin, valued at 200 No. 34. 40 acres land in Jackson Co., Wisconsin, valued at 200 No. 35. 40 acres land in Dad Ale Co., Wisconsin, valued at 160 No. 36. 40 acres land in Bad Axe Co., Wisconsin, valued at jeo No. 87. 40 acres land in Dad Axe Co., Wisconsin, valued at iso No. 88. One lot in Fulton, Illinois, valued at 160 No. 39. Ono lot in Fulton, Illinois, valued at 100 No. 40. Ono lot In Fulton, Illinois, valued at 100 The distribution will bo conducted fairly and honor ably. The names and address of stockholders shall be written on as many small cards as they have shares, and the whole placed in a box, and the first nawotaken out shall be entitled to tho .Improved <?*•“ *' the above lx«t, near* out will bo entitled to No. 2. and ao on until the 40 Items of real estate are all distributed Th*» esrh of the remaining I* am •!* Bont * cheap map of State or Territory. A full account of the distribution wju b° forwarded in a printed circular, to each member of the Association, with the names aid address of a*ch a* mayroceivo tho real estate—to whom also tb« f*ds Jy, r? Ben *andimraedlatepossesslpnffiven. Bach ap plicotlon m««t be aocomnann?a'Tritt»Vi five letter stamps. Address LINXiELL, JONES & CO., au-13 Chicago, Illinois, /CHOICE FARM LANDS FOR SALE.— vV TUB ILLINOISOENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY is now prepared to sell about 1,600,000 acres of choice Panning lands, in tracts of 40 acres and upwards, on long credits, and at low rates of interest. These lands wore granted by-the Government to aid In tho construction of this Rood, and are among the richest and moßt fertile in the world. They extend from North-East and North-West, through tho middle of the State, to the extremo South, and include every variety of climate and productions found between those parallels of latitude. The Northern portion Is chiefly pralrio, interspersed with fine groves, and In the middle and Southern sections timber predominates, alternating with beautiful prairies and opoulnru. The climate is more healthy, mild and equable, than any other part of the country-—the air is pure aua bra cing, while living streams and springs of excellent water abound. Dituminoos Coal is extensively rained, and supplies a cheap and desirable fuel, being furnished at many points at $2 to $4 per ton—and wood can be had at the same rate per cord. Building Stone of excellent quality Also abounds, which can he procured for llttlo more th&a the expense of transportation. Tho great fertility of these lands, which are a black rich mould, from two to Are feet deep, and gently roll ingj their contiguity to this road, by which every Tael lity is furnished for travel and transportation to the principal markota North, South. East, West, and the economy with which they can do cultivated, render them tho moat valuablo investment that can be found, and present tho most favorable opportunity for persons of Industrious habits and small moans to acquire a com* fortablo independence in a few years. Ob icago iB now the greatest gram market in the world; and tho facility and economy with which tho products of these lands con be transported to that market, make them much more profitable, at the prices asked, than those more remote at government rates, as the addi tionnl cost of transportation is a perpetual tax on the tatter, which must do borne by tho producer, in the re* duced price he receives for his grain, &c. The title is perfect—and when tho final payments are made, deeds are executed by the trustees appointed by the Statu, and in whom the title is vested, to the pur chasers, which convey to them absolute titles Inleo sim ple, free and dear ofewery incumbrance, lien or mort gage. The prices are from fO to 130: interest only 3 per ct. Twonty pur ct. will ho deducted from the price for cash. Those who purchase on longcredit, give notes payable In two, three, four, fivoand sixyours afterdate, and ate required to improve ono-tenth annually for five years, so as to have one-half tho land under cultivation at the end of that time. Competent surveyors will accompany those who wish to oxamino theso Lands, free of charge, and aid them in making selections. Tho Lands remaining unsold are as rich and valuable as those which have been disposed of. SECTIONAL MAPS Will be sent to any ono who will enclose fifty cents in postago stamps, and books or pamphlota containing nu morons instances of successful fanning, signed by re spcctublo and well known farmers living in tho neigh borhood of the llailro&d Lands, throughout tho State— also tho cost of fouclng, price of cattlo, expanse of har vesting, threshing, etc.,—or any other information—, will bo cheerfully glveu on application, either personalia or by lotter, in English, French, or German, addressed to JOHN WILBON. Land Commissioner of the Illinois Central H. R. Cow Office iu Illinois Central Railroad Repot, Chicago, Il» 1 llnoia, aal TMFORTAffT IMPROVEMENT— ' JL NEW GAS CONSUMING FURNACE. WILSON'S NEW CONE FURNACE, after having boon put to the most severe tost, during tho two COLD winters or 1850 and 1667, haa proved to be tho most powerful heater in the world, saving from y x to X tho fuel overauy of tho best furnacesnowlu use, Thesis Fuhnaobh aro constructed with a cast iron ash pit, and a broad, shallow pan-shaped fire pot, liaed with fire-brick or iron staves. The flro pot is surmount ed with A SERIES OF CONES, or TAPERING RADIATORS, largo and broad at their Ease, but tapering to small aner tures at the top, and uniting with the anular chamoer, through which the heat and smoke pass to the due. The whole products of combustion In the form of smoke and gibes, are ausnendod directly ovor the fire, confined or compressed into the tapering OoNSg and continually exposed to the direct action of the rays of heat ami light from the fire. This heat and light is brought to a roocs In baob Cone, not unlike tho COLLECTION OF THE BUN’S RAYS, to a focal point through an ordinary lens, causing the shore and gases to become intensely heated and tho roughly 00N8DMBD, by this, operation the shokr and oases are uade equally available with the fuel itself for heating purposes, while, iu other furnaces, it is CARRIED OFF AND WASTED IN TUB CHIMNEY. All persons desirous of obtaining the Lest and MOST ECONOMICAL UKATINO APPARATUS, should not fall to examine the Khw Gas Oomsomiho Comb Eorsaob. before purchasing an/ other. The at tention of architects and builders is particular!/ re quested. ARNOLD & WILBON, (Successors to S. A. Harrison.) No. 604 WALNUT Streot, Opposite Independence Square, Philadelphia type foundry- N. W. Cor. THIRD and CHUSNUTSta. L. PELOUZB k SON, thankful for the liberal pa. troiiago heretofore accorded to their Establishment, and desirous to merit IW continuance, would aunounce -to Printers and Publishers that thelf now SPECIMEN ; BOOK l* now ready, aud from their Increased facilities, aro now prepared to furnish every thing necessary in a complete Printing Establishment, at the shortest no tice. Their long practical experience in the business, and the fact of taoir personal superintendence of the manufacturing department, justifies thorn in asserting that they can furnish a more durable and better fin ished article than their cotemporaries. Those, therefore, who desire Printing Materials, would do well to apply to them previous to purchasing elsewhere* Old type taken at 0 cents per pound, In exobange for new at spoolmon prices. ml.tf SSfJSLCOME RANGE— SouTmUHAD ~ ~ WICK .V IIRO. va N. BKOOND Bt. •iilS-3nl. CONGRESS RANGE—SOLD BY CHAD WICK Jt DUO., N0.‘102 N.fiUOOND Btrest. an*lB-Bmiw FLOOl£lNTrWAliDS~23;CBo"ft^rCoro lint flooring botrdu, afloat, for «»la by MARTIN Ic MAOAMBTKR-' Ml IW Kortk WtUi Btnit. , insurance Companies. HUB INSURANCE, SPRING GARDEN FIRE INSURANCE COM CAPITAL $120,000, PAID IN CASH, AND BEOURELY INVESTED, OFFICE, N. W. CORNER OF SIXTH AND WOOD STS., SPRING GARDENS. CHARTER PBKI'ETUAL. LOSS 138 PROMPTLY PAID. DIRECTORS. JoluiH. Dolmcrt, Henry M. Phillips, David Woelpper, Lewis Shinnack, Benjamin Davis, John Landed!, John Evans, Jr Charles Field, Auley M. Park, William K. Wood, James Burnell, John B, Stevenson, Jacob 9. Mlntzer, Curwin Stoddard. Henry Homer, Tbos. D. Tillingkaat, George K. Childs. JOHN 11. DOHNKRT, President. L. KRUMBHAAR, Secretary. sept 21— ly \TEPTUNE INSURANCE COMPANY.— ■ - v OFFICE 414 WALNUT Bt., Franklin llulldlngft. FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE. CAPITAL $lOO,OOO, WITH PRIVILEGE to INCREASE TO 600,000. This Company is now fully organ zed, and prepared to make all kinds of Insurance against loss or damage by Fire and Marine Perils, at current rates. (iwinvwu H.O.LAUGHLIN, president. ' RICHARD SHIELDS, Vice President. GEO. SCOTT. Secretary. * DIRECTORS. H. O. Lat/ghlin, D. Sharwood, Wra. Osborne, Richard Shields, T. F. Shewell, George Minster, W. O. Stotesbury, R. M.Carlile, 0. 0. Buttor, Geo. Scott. [au!9-y Howard fire and marine in surance COMPANY OP PHILADELPHIA. FRANKLIN BUILDINGS, No. 91 WALNUT STREET. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, $OOO,OOO. (FULL AUOONT SUaSQItIQRD.) Invested as follows: First Bonds and Mortgages on Property in the City of Philadelphia 000 Btoeka worth par 223 100 Cash on hand 51’iQO Amount secured by Stock n0te5,,.,,, 1&q’oOO Amount of Stock duo on call l’flO „ » . $OOO,OOO Tnls Company enacts insurances on Buildings, Mer chandise, Eurnltare, Lumber, &c.;on Vessels, Cargo, and Freight; to all ports, and by ltailroad, Lukes, and lUvcra, at the lowest rates, and upon tho most liberal torma, guarantying Prompt Payment ou the adjustment of lossos. in?*Perpotaal Insurance made upon the nsual terms. 3TOHS. P.M. Potta, 0. K. Spangler, Abr’m. Bex, Wra. H. Woods, George Howell, J. Edgar Thomson, 0. G. Sower, John W. Sexton, Herman Haupt, Nathan K. Potts, PEROIVAL M. 1 0. B. SPANGLER, Vice Pre AuglB-ly R. T. KENS Wm, F. Leech. R. T. Kensil, 11. H Houston, Jos. R. Withers, Abr’m. P.Eyre, W. Raiguel, Charles V. Norton, John 11. Lewars, James E. Stiles, 11. N. Burroughs, lOTTS, President, es’t., IV. H. WOODS, See., ISIL, Treasurer. THE QUAKER CITY INSURANCE COMPANY, Offic*No. 408 (late 02) WALNUT St. Capital and Surplus, $250,000. This Company continues to make Insurance against loss or damage by Fire and tho Perils of the Sea, Inland Navigation and Transportation, at current rates. OFPICEBB. President—GEO. 11. HABT Vice President—E. P. ROSS. Secretary and Treasurer—H. R. COGGBHALL. Assistant Secretary—B. H. BUTLER. DIRECTORS. George H. Hart, E. P. Ross, A.C.Cattoll, Joseph Edwards, John G. Dale, Hon. Henry M. Fuller, Fosters, Perkins, John 11. Chambers, au 8-1 y E. W. Bailey, Charles G. Imlay, Wm. D. Lewis, Jr., J. L. Pomeroy, Andrew R. Chambort, H. R. CoggshaH, Samuel Jones, M. D., A. F. Cheesbrough. Philadelphia fire and life in- SURANOE COMPANY, incorporated by the State of Pennsylvania iu 1848, are now established in tliolr NEW OFFICE, No. 433 CHESTNUT Street, where they are prepared to make ALL KINDS OF INSURANCE, from LOSS BY FIRE, on property of every description, in Town or Country, Including PUBLIC BUILDINGS, DWELLINGS STORES, WAREHOUSES, FACTORIES and MANUFACTORIES, WORKSHOPS, VESSELS, Ac. Also, MERCHANDIZE of all kinds: STOCKS OF GOODS, Stocks of COUNTRY BTORE3, Goods on STORAGE or in BOND, STOCKS and TOOLS of AR TIFIOBRS aud MECHANICS; FURNITURE, JEW ELRY, FIXTURES, Ac , Ac,, Ac., Ac., at moderate rate* of premium, and for any period*of time. This Company refer to their past career as an ample guarantee for the PROMPT SETTLEMENT of all their LOSSES. There are at this time no unsettled claim* against them. ROBERT P. KING, Pres’t. M. W. BALDWIN, Vice PresH. FgAHOfB Blaoibpbhk, Beo’y. aul-3ra Life insurance and trust com pany.—The PENN MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Southeast Cornor of THIRD and DOCK Streets. Capital. {612,725 03. INSURES LIVES tor short terms, or for the whole term of life—grants annuities and ondowmonts—pur chases life on Interests in Real Estate, and mokes all contracts depending on tho contingencies of Life. They act as Executors, Administrators, Assignees, Trustees and Guardians. MONEY RECEIVED ON DEPOSIT In any amount— Fife Par Cent. Interest allowed from date of deposit, payablo back on demand without notice. ASSETS OF THE COMPANY, January Ist, 1857. Loans of tho State of Pennsylvania, Phila delphia City, Penn’a Railroad. Camden and Amboy Railroad, and other Loans $170,685 38 Bonds, Mortgages and Real Estate 117,137 IP Stocks In Banks, Insurance, Gas and Kail. road Companies v .... Premium Notes and Loans on Collaterals Cash in Bank, due from Agents, Inter- eft, &© 88,780 47 Gunranto# Capital, Subscription Kotos 100,000 00 8711,225 03 DANIEL L. MILLER, President. SAMUEL H. BTOICES, Vice Pres’t. Joan W. 008508. Secretary. aul-ly Arctic fire insurance compa ny, NEW YORK.—OiBce, No 20 Wall Btreet, ad joining the Mechanics' Bank—Cosh Capital, $250,000, wWli a surplus. Tills Company Insure Buildings, Mer chandfco, Furniture, Vessels in port nud their Cargoos, and other property, against Loss or Damage by Vint and the Risk* of Inland — Uenry Grlnnell, Joshua L. Pope, Caleb Baratov, Rufus R. Graves, Hoory O. Brewer, Henry Davis, Edmund Penfold, O. 11. Lllienthal, Hanson K. Corning, Theo. Polhemus, jr. Ogden Haggerty, Elisha D. Morgan. Thomas Moo&gan, Abm. R. Van Nest, John H. Earle, William A. Cary, Albert Ward, Thomas 8. Nelson, Charles Easton, James W. Phillips, Louis Lorut. Charles A. Macy, Samuel G. (Hidden, Edward Uincken, Stopb. Cambreleng, Wm. K. Shepard, Thomas Scott, Charles L. Frost, John Ward, Lothrop L. Sturges, Honry K. llogert, William R, Poedick, Poter Edcs, Emery Thayer, Benjamin 11. Field, Geo. Westfeldt, A. K. Frotblngham, Zalmoa Taylor, Thes. F. Youngs, Henry E. Blossom. Samuel L. Mitchell, ALBERT WARD, President. Ricnian A. Oailkt, Secretary. an 10-ly TtyfANUFACTURERS* INSURANCE J.VA COMPANY.—Charter Perpetual. Granted by the State of Pennsylvania. Capital, 8600,000. Fire, Marine, and Inland Transportation. Diauotoßa. Aaron 8. Llpplncott, Charles Wise, Wm. A. Rhodes, Alfred Weeks, Charles J. Field, James P. Smyth, Wm. U. Thomas, J, Rioaldofiank, Wm. Neal. John P. Simons, AARON B. LIPPINGOTT, President. WM A. RHODES, Vice President. ALFRED WEEKS, Secretary. J. W. MARTIEN, Surveyor. This Company was organised with a cash capital, and the Directors have determined to adapt the business to Its available rosourcea—to observe prudouco iu conduct ing ito affairs, with a prompt adjustment of losses. offl.ee No. 10 Merchants 1 Exchange, Philadelphia. The mercanti. RANCK COMPANY C No. 222 WALNUT Btrcet,c RINE RISKS on Vessels, ( LAND TRANSPORTATIO Canals, Boats, and other ca ALL TUB PROFITS dlvi sared, and ample security ii Dlßßt JJdvrard Harris Miles, lolm M. Odcnheimer, LE MUTUAL INSU OF PHILADELPHIA..—Office opposite the Exchange. MA. Ottrgoca, and Freights, IN }N DISKS, per Kailroada, irrlages. Wed annually among the As ti canes of loss. VfORB. Thomas T. Batcher, Algernon E. Ashbarner, Alfred Fossitt, Thomas 8. Foster, OustIVYUS English, James H. Stroup, Allred Slade, A. G. Cattcll, Charles B. Carstalrs, Samuel Robinson, John C. ICoffor, John P. Steiner, Homy Gr&mbo, Wm. J Oauer, Jreutiborg. .KRIS MILKS, President. 33ITT, Vice President. ry. *ul-ly Mahion Williamson, Samuel J. Sharpies*, iBa&o Jeanes, Henry Preaut, IMward G. James, William L. Springs, Franklin 0. Jones, Daniel Haddock. Jr.. William Taylor, James Murphy, Wm.F. Smith, A. J. Antelo, Samuel L. C KDWARD lIAI ALFRED FAS: JonS 0. KjtVFER, Sooretarj /'UIAHTEK OAK FJKE AND MARINE \J INSURANCE COMPANY or HARTFORD, CONN. Cash Capital $300,000, Losses la Philadelphia mid vicinity adjusted at tho PAi7aiH/pA»« Office. By le&rtt we refer to D. 8. llrewn &. Co.. Phlla. I Ifon. Joel Jones, Phila. Chaffee*, Stout A Co., “ | Hon. Rufus Choate, Poston Hacker, Lea & Co., “ I Hon. T. 8. Williams, llart’d We have facilities for placing any amount of Insu* ranee in the moat reliable Companies. PHILADELPHIA GENERAL INSURANCE No. 418 told No. 145) CHESTNUT ST. TUQSXySQN * ROOD, Agents. /COMMONWEALTH PIKE INSURANCE KJ COMPANY, 01? THE iSTATL OP PENNSYLVA NIA.—Office, N. W. Corner FOURTH and WALNUT streets, Philadelphia Subscribed Capital, $500,000. Paid-up Oapilal. 1200.000. DAVID JAYNE, M. D., President. THOMAS S. STEWART, Vice Pres’t. Sakohi. 8. Mook, Secretary. aul«ly Commission XUcrdjauis. ~ Handy & brenner—commission MERCHANTS and Dealers In Foreigu and Ame rican HARDWARE and CUTLERY, Nos. 23, 25 and 27 North FIFTH Streot, East side, above Commerce street, Philadelphia. aul-tf CHARLES TETE, COMMISSION MER CHANT and Importer ol HAVANA BEOAR3, (New) 138 Walnut street, second story. aul-Iy CARD.*— THE SUBSCRIBERS RESPECT FULLY inform their friends and the trade gener ally that they have made arrangements for ono of thoir Buyers leaving monthly for the FreucU aud Herman Markets. From many years’ experience, the permanent real denco In Purls of two of tho firm, and an abundant capital, they can offer unusual facilities for THE PUR CHASE ON COMMISSION in any of the European markets for Hlilpimmt diroot. They are also prepared to receive orders from samples tor Flowers and Feathers from their extensive and well known manufactories in Paris, to bo shipped direct, either under bond or duty paid. IIENDKIUJON, SMYTH & CO.. Importers, aulo-2m* No. 200 Broadway. milE ADAMS EXPRESS CO., OFFICE' J. 820 CHESTNUT STREET, forward# PARCELS, PACKAGES, MERCHANDIZE. BANK NOTES ami SPECIE, either by It* own LINES, or Iti connection with other EXPRESS COMPANIES, to all the principal TOWNS and CITIES of the United States. * K. S. BANDFOBD, OpppTftl Snperlntendent. Abram slack-engraving, die Sinking and Embossed Printing, Euvclope and Beal Pros* Manufactory. 87 Strawberry Street, between Second aud Third, and Markot and Chestnut Street. Philadelphia, Pa. aul2-ly S'fl AKP'E'>S"MEN’S AN J) [SOYS’ CLOTHING, 148 North fOURTU Streot, between Arch aud Race. aufi-ly C*ARDINES.—IOO cases of 60 Half boxes Ik? each, In store aud for sale by lIKNIIY boiilen A CO., au 6 Nob. 221 aud 223 S. Fourth street H'OTEL AND SUMMER Sold by CHADWICK & BRO , 202 N. SECOND 8t AUglB~3mos. Russia and American tarred CORDAGE.~a superior article, manufacture and for R&I9 by WEAVER, FITLER & CO , . No^llNtWftterst.j&^N.WhttTM, Sacinqo Junta, CAVING FUND—FIVE PER CENT. IN- SAPETY TRUST COM. Mn N T.i7, n A ® t K*ET, SOUTH-WEST CORNER UT THIRD, PHILADELPHIA. IKCORPOBATBD BT TUB StA»H 0? PIBHBTLTAinA. Money Ib received la any Hum, large or email, tuid in drawn]“ fltom Ul “ a “Y of 4e J<»lt to tlie day of with- Tliooffloo It open every day from 8 o’clock in the morning till 7 o’clwlt In the evening, and on Monday and Thumlay evenings till 0 o’clock? An , ‘“rgc °r «n»H, ere paid back in gold on de mand, without notice, to any amount. HON HENIIY L. BENNER, President, ROBERT SELPIUDOE, Ylca President. WM. 3. Rbbd, Secretary. w niBEOTOBB; ?«- n , c : lr f L ' Benner, 0. landreth Mnnne, Robert R»ir®S rtW ’ *' CMt<> " Brewster, Rohort BelTridge, Joseph B. Harry, Bainl. K. Ashton, Henry L. ChurcLman, James B. Smith, Francla Lee. *JrJ?il.h. oln ? an * CQa6Qea its business entirely to the V** moa V OQ interest. The Investments, amounting to over ’ ONJ MILLION and a half of dollars, are inade in with the provisions of the in j aEA t L K3TATK MORTGAGES, GROUND RENTS, and such first class securities as wIU always in sure perfect aecunty to the depositors, and which can not fail to give permauoucy and stability to this Insti tution. aul-ly SIXPENNY SAVINGS FUND. Corner of FIFTH and WALNUT Streets. Open daily, from 9 to 3, and on Tuesday and Friday Evenings, until 8 o’clock. Large or small sums received, anil paid with out notice, with FIVE PER CENT. INTEREST, by oheck or otherwise. JOHN THOMSON, Preset. VIO! FfiKStDKXTti, TUOS. T. TASKER, EDWIN M. USWIB. BIOBBTABY AM> TRSABUSKB, WM, T. ELBERT, TBOBTIBB, ffm. 0. Ludwig, D. 0. Levy, Charles E. Lex, A. Mlskey, Israel W. Morris, Jr., Wo. Neal. Thos. Neilson, Thomas 8. Reed, M. P Janies Russell, Thos. P. Sparhawk, Oscar Thompson, Potor 'Williamson, iß&ac S. Waterman, Charles T. Yerkes. John B. Austin, John E. AddickJ, Salomon Alter, M. W. Baldwin, William Clark, Ephraim Clark, Jr., Charles 8. Carstairs, Bobert Clark, A. J. Drexel. Charles Dutilh, Wm. B Foster, Benjamin Gerhard, Johu Jordan, Jr., Lewis Lewis, Jr., aul*3m j\TO. 83 (241) DOCK STREET. —FIVE 11 PER OENT. STATE SAYINGS FUND. J\TO. 83 (241) DOCK STREET FIVE 11 PER CENT. STATE SAVINGS FUND. NO. 83 (241) DOCK STREET FIVE PER CENT. STATE SAVINGS FUND. TOO. 83 (241) DOCK STREET FIVE 11 PER CENT. STATE SAVINGS FUND, aul-ly iilfldjincrji attb 3rati ©TEAM ENGINES, f n o si TWO TO ONE HUNDRED HORSE POWER. ALSO, A POLL iSdOKTJJS.VT OP MACHINISTS' TOOLS, SLIDE LATHES. PLANING MACHINES, DRILLS, CHUCKS, MORTISING MACHINES, Ac. For BAlo at the MACHINE DEPOT— No. 135 NORTH THIRD STREET, sonimo J. M. HOLLINGSHEAD. SAMUEL T. MERRICK. J.YAQQEIR MERRICK, WILLIAM H. MEBBICK. ttOUTirWARK FOUNDRY, ►3 FIFTH AND WASHINGTON STREETS, PHILADELPHIA. MERRICK & SONS, ENGINEERS AND MACHINISTS, manafisctnre High and Lour Pressure Steam Engine*, for Land, River, ana Marine service. Hollers, Gasometers, Tanks, Iron Boats, &c., Cast ings of all kinds, either Iron or Brass. Iron frame roofs for Gas Works, Workshops, Railroad Stations. &$. Retorts and Gas Machinery of the latest and most improved construction. Every description of Plantation machinery, such as Sugar, Saw, and Grist Mills, Vacuum Pans, Open Steam Trains, Defecators, Filters, Pumping Engines, &o. Solo Agouts for N. Rillieux’s Patent Sugar Boiling Apparatus; Nasmyth's Patent Steam Hammer; J. P. Ross’ Patent Valve Motion for Blast Machinery and Steam Pumps. Superintendent—B. H. BABTOL Richard norris & son, LOCOMO TIVE STEAM ENGINE BUILDERS, BEVKSTRRKTH STREET, HAMILTON, 7AKVISW AND SPRING GARDEN STREETS, PHILADELPHIA. Engaged exclusively in the manufacture of LOCOMOTIVE STEAM ENGINES. Manufacture to order Locomotives of an/ arrange* meat, weight or capacity, for the use of Wood or Coke, or Bituminous Coal in its etude, state, or ANTHRACITE COAL, WITHOUT KNITTING BXOKB, OAR.OR TIES. In design, material and workmanship, the Locomo tives produced at these Works are equal to, and not ex celled by any. The materials used in construction are modo on the spot, and insure the best quality and most Tollable stock. The large extent of Shops, and Com plete Equipment of Machinery and Toots, enable them to execute the BEST OF WORE WITH GREAT DESPATCH, OP ANY ARRANGEMENT REQUIRED. CHILLED OAR WHEELS, HAMMERED AXLES, WithforgiugMof any size or form, IRON AND BRASS CASTINGS, And MACHINE WORK generally. BICHARD NORRIS. HENRY LATIMER NORRIS, aul-ly 61,729 98 193,692 01 PENH STEAM ENGINE AND BOIL Eli WORKS. REANET, NEAFIE & CO., PRACTICAL AND THEORETICAL ENGINEERS, MACHINISTS, SMITHS AND yODNDEM Having for many years been in successful operation, and been exclusively engaged In building and repairing Marino and River Knglues, high and low pressure, Iron Boats, Water Tanks, Propellers, Ac., Ac., respectfully offer their services to the uuon«», a* using fully to contract for Eoglues of all sixes, Marine, River, and Stationary. Having sets of patterns of different sizes, ° nr p„ired t 0 executo order* **ni quiet despatch! *.—v e JcftCriptiuu of Pattern-maklng made at the shortest notice. High and- Low Pressure, Pine, Tubu lar and Cylinder Boilers, of the best Pennsylvania char coal iron. Forgings of all sixes and kinds; Iron and Brim Castings of all descriptions; Roll Turning, Screw Cutting, and all other work connected with the above business. Drawings and specifications for all work dene at their establishment free of charge, and work guaranteed. The subscriber# have ample wharf dock room for re pairs of boats, whero they can lay in perfect safety, and are provided with shears, blocks, fails, Ac., Ac., for raising heavy or light weights. THOSIAB REANET. JACOB G. NEAFIE. JOHN P. LEYY, aul-y BEACH abd PALMER Streets, Kensington. Handy & morris manufacturers OF CUMBERLAND WROUGHT IRON TUBES FOR GAS, STEAM OR WATER. ALSO, GENERAL IRON COMMISSION MERCHTS. Warehouse 8. B. corner FRONT and WALNUT. aul-3io • iJlc&icines Nineteenth century>—the GREAT REMEDY OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 18 TIIE IMPERIAL DEPURATIVE. This is now the great stsudard remedy for diseases ol the Blotxl, Stomach and Liter. If you have a Cancerous or Scrofulous affection, at once use the Imperial Depurative. Tetter.—At9 you troubled with this obstinate and un pleasant disease ? Use the Imperial Depurative. Try but one bottle. Have you White Swelling', Hip Disease, or Glandular Swellings! Tho Imperial Depurative will effect a cure. Try it. For Pimples, Blotches and Eruptions of the Skin gene rally, you nave a prompt and certain remedy In the Im perial Depurative. One bottle will satisfy you of its offlc&cy. Use the Imperial Depurative, if you would have a clear, healthful, and beautiful complexion. Use the Imperial Depurative for a diseased state of tho Liver or Stomach. For females of a weak and debilitated habit and shat tered nerves, the Imperial Depurative ie just what Is required to re-invigorate the frame and restore the ner vous system to a healthy state. Wo know the full valuo of this great remedy, as we are using it every day in an extensive practice, and see Its great curative powers manifested in numerous cases. We know it has no equal in this country. Tho careful preparation, great pun ty and strength of the Imperial Depurative renders large doses or long continued use of it unnecessary. It acts directly upon the diseased part, and it is not necessary to wait months to discover the benefits to be gained. If you wish to purify and enrich the Blood , and pre vent disease, as well os euro it at this season of the year, use one or two bottled of tho Imperial Depurative , and wo will guarantee its beneficial effects. Prepared by Dr. LOUNBBKKRY & CO., and for sale at the Priucipal Office, No. 50 North Fifth street, three doors below Arch, where patieuts may consult Dr. L. daily, froe of charge. The Imperial Depurative is the great remedy of the nineteenth century. aul-tf HELMBOLD’B genuine prepara- TION, Extract Buchu, for all Diseases of the Blad der, Kidneys, Gravel, Dropsy, Nervous and Debilitated Sufferers. HELMBOLD’ 3 GENUINE PREPARA TION, Extract Buchu, removes all the symptons, among which will be found Indisposition to exertion, Lou of Power, Loss of Memory, Difficulty of Breathing, General Weakness, Horror of DUse&se, Weak Nerve*, Trembling, Dreadful Horror of Death, Night Sweats, Cold Feet, WakeCulum, Dimness of vi&Uiu, Languor, Universal Lassitude of the Muncular System, often euor moua Appetite or Dyspeptic Symptoms, Hot Rands. Flushings of the Body, Dryness of the Skin, Pallia Countenance, Eruptions on tho Faoo, Pains in the Back, Heaviness of tho Eyo Lids, frequently Black Spot® Hying before the Eyes, with temporary Suffusion. Loss of Sight. If these symptons are allowed to go on, which this me dicine invariably removes, soon follow Fatuity and Epi leptic Fits. IP YOU ARE SUFFERING TTITH ANY of the above distressing ailments, use HELM BOLD’S PREPARATIONS. Try them, and be convinced of their efficacy. HELMBOLD’S genuine frepara- RATION, Extract Buchu, “ Givo health and vigor to the frame, And bioom to the pallid cheek!” And are bo pleasant In their taste, that patients be* come fond of them. HEUIBOLD’ 8 genuine prepara- TION, Extract Buchu—See overwhelming eviden ces which will be produced to show that they do great ?:ood to all who honor them witha trial. Evidence open or tholnspection of all. HELMBOLD* GENUINE PREPARA TION, Extract Buchu.—Price $1 per Bottle, de livered to any address. Depot, 63South TENTH street, Assembly Buildiog, below CHESTNUT street, Philadel pbia. Address letters, 11. T. lIKLMBOLD, 52 South TENTH street, below CHESTNUT. Philadelphia. Sold by Druggists and Dealers everywhere. Beware of Counterfeits. auT-3m* iiools and Sljocs NO. 442, SOUTHEAST CORNER OF MARKET and FIFTH Streets. Gentlemen's Best Patent Leather Gaiter Boots. 44 44 Calf do do “ 44 Patent Loather Oxford Ties. 44 44 Calf do. do. “ 14 Patent Leather and Calf narrow strap Shoes. Buys’ and Youths' Pateut Leather and CaU Shin Gaitor Boots and Shoes nul-tr For sale by Fall stock ok boots and shoes. —JOSEPH II THOMPSON A CO . No. 314 MAR KET Street, and NeV 3 aud & FRANKLIN PLACE have new In atore 5 largo and well-assorted stock or BOOTS and SHOES, of Cltjr and Eastern manufacture, which they offer for sale on the best tonne for Cash, or on the usual credit. . , 4 . , . . Buyers are lu?it«d to call and oxamlne their stock, aul-dtf COACn, ENGINE AND IIOTEL LAMP Factoryor E.W UeSHERB,No.IO9 (late 43) South vmtiTii Wow Chestnut street, has become a saving of 50 percent. to our SOUTHERN AND WESTERN MERCHANTS, and also the convnulence of having their old Carriage Lamps new silver-topped kgd bottomed, laid sent h/ckpref® to all part*. aa!24y . ■RESOLUTION PROPOSING AMJSND MSNIS TO THE CONSTITUTOR 01 THEooM monwealth. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representa tives yf the L ommonastalth of Pennsylvania in Gin cral Aasmbly met: That the Following amendments are proposed to the Constitution of the Couuuouwatth. in accordance with the provisions of the tenth article thereof. . , «BBT AJtBSDMBST, There shall be an additional article to said Coostita tlon to be designated as article eleven, as follows ARTICLB XI. OP PUBLIC D£DT9. fIaOTfOK 1. The State may contract debts, to supply casual deficit or failures in revenues, or to meet expen ses not otherwise provided for, out the aggregate amount of such debts direct and cootiu*ent. whether contracted by virtue of one or more acts of the general assembly, or at different periods of tlu>e,Bhnil never ex ceed seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and the mouey arising from the creation of such debts, shall be applied to the purpose for which it was obtained, or to repay the debts so contracted, and to no other purpose whatever. BOILER-MAKERS, BLACK- GEO. W. TAYLOR. Scot ion 2. In addition to the above limited power, the State may contract debts to repel invasion, suppress Insurrection, defoed the State In war, or to redeem the present outstanding indebtedness of the State: but the money arising from the contracting of such debts, shall be applied to the purpose for which It was raised, or to repay such debts, and to no other purpose whatever. Suction 3. Except the debts above specified, In sec tions one and two of this article, no debt whatever shall be created by, or ou behalf of the State. Section 4. To provide for the payment of the present deb., and any additional debt contracted as aforesaid, the legislature Rball, at its first session, after the adop tion of this amendment, create a sinking fund, which shall be sufficient to pay the accruing interest on such debt, and annually to reduce the principal thereof by a *um not less than two hundred and fifty thousand dol lars ; which sinking fund shall consist of the net annual income of the public works, from time to time owned by ihe Btate, or the proceeds of the sale of the same, or any part thereof, and of the income or proceeds of sale or stocks owned by the State, together with other funds, or resources, that may be designated by law. The said sinking fund may be increased, from time to time, by aa signlng to jinny part of the taxes, or other revenues of the State, not required for the ordinary and current ex penses of government, and unless l Q ease of war inva sion or insurrection, no part of the said sinking fund shall be used or applied otherwise than in extinguish ment of the public debt, until the amount of such debt is reduced below the sum of five millions of dollars. Ssbtios 5. The credit of the Commonwealth shall not in any manner, or event, be pledged, or loaned to, any individual, company, corporation, or association; nor shall the Commonwealth hereafter become a joint owner, or stockholder, in any company, association, or cor poration. Sxctios 6. The Commonwealth shall not assume the debt, or any part thereof, of aer county, city, borough, or township; or of any corporation, or association; un less each debt shall have been contracted to enable the State to repel Invasion, suppress domestic insurrection, defend Itself In time of war. or to assist the State in the discharge of any portion of its present indebtedness. SsotiosT. The Legislature shall not authorise any county, city, borough, township, or incorporated dis trict, by virtu© of a vote of its citizens, or otherwise, to become a stockholder In any company, association or corporation; or to obtain money for, or loan its credit to, any corporation, association, Institution or party. BICOSt) AhXSMtBXT. There shall be an additional article to said Constitu tion, to be designated aa article XII., as follows: aarzeui xn. OP NEW COUNTIES. No county shall be divided by a line cutting off over one-tenth of its population, (either to form a new county or otherwise,) without the express assent of sueh county, by a vote of the electors thereof; nor shall any new county be established, containing less than four hundred square miles. TUIRD AXfiXnjfßXT, Prom section two of the first article of the Constitu tion strike out the words, “0/ the city of Philadelphia, and of each county respectively;** from section five, same article, strike out the words, “of Philadtlphia and 0/ the several counties;” from section seven, same article, strike out the words. u neither the city of Phi ladelpMa nor any,” and insert in lieu thereof the words, “and no;” and strike out “sectionfour, same article,” and in lieu thereof Insert the following: “ Section 4. In the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, and in every seventh year thereafter, re presentatives to the number of oue hundred, be apportioned and distributed equally, throughout the Btate, by districts, in proportion to the number of taxa ble inhabitants in the several parts thereof; except that any county containing at least three thousand five hundred taxable®, mar be allowed a separate represen tation ; but no more than three counties shall be joined, and no county sh&ll be divided, in the formation of a district. Any city containing a sufficient number of taxable* to entitle it to at least two representatives, shall have a separate representation assigned it, and shall be divided into convenient districts of contiguous territory, of equal taxable population as near aa may be, each of which districts shall elect one representative.” At the end of section seven, same article, insert these words, “ the city of Philadelphia shall be divided into single iflaaioriai duzritls, of contiguous territory as nearly equal in taxable population as possible, but no t card shall be divided in the fffrmatiort thereof” The legislature, at its first session, after the adoption of this amendment, shall divide the city of Philadelphia into senatorial and representative districts, in the man ner above provided; such districts to remain unchanged until the apportionment In the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. VOUBTH AXXNDXEXr. There shall be an additional section to the first article of said Constitution, which shall be numbered and read as follows: oxcr/ox2d. The legislature shall hare the power to alter, revoke, or annul, any charter of incorporation hereafter conferred by, or under, any special, or general law. whenever in their opinion it may be injurious to the citizens of the Commonwealth; in such manner, however, that no injustice shall be dona to the corpora tors. ■ In Senate, March 29,1857. Ntsofoed, That this resolution pass. On the first amendment, yeas 24, nays 7; on the second amendment, yeas 23, nays 8: on ihe third amendment, yeas 24, nays i ; on the fourth amendment, yeas 23, nays 4. [Extract from the Journal.] GEO. W. UAMBBSLY, Clerk. Ia the Hoosa or Rbfensehtatitis, April 28,155 T. Resolved, That this resolution pass. On the first amendment, yeas 78, nays 12; on the second amendment, yeas 57, nays 34; on the third amendment, yeas 72, says 22; on the fourth amendment, yeas 83, nays 7. [Extract from the Journal.] JACOB ZIEGLER, Clerk. Piled In Secretary 1 * office, May 2,1857. A. G. CURTIN, Secretary of the Commonwealth. Sbcubtaut's OrviCN. HahbisbdbQ, Jane 22,1657. Pennsylvania ss: x Ou certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original * ‘Resolution proposing amend ments 10 tue vonsitraaon or tu* ouinmouweaiin," with the voto in each brunch ef the Legislature upon the final passage thereof, as appears from the originals on file in this office. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my [x.B.] hand and caused to be affixed the seal 0! the Secretary’s Office, the day and year above written. A. G. CURTIN. Secretary of the Commonwealth. In Esxxt*, March 2T, I&ST. The resolution proposing amendments to the Consti tution of the Commonwealth being under consideration, On the question, Will the Senate agree to the first amendment? The yeas and nays were taken agreeably to the pro visions of the Constitution, and were as follow, viz: Yxia—Messrs. Brewer, Browne, Coffey, Ely, Evans, Fetter, Fleuniken, Frazer, Ingram, Jordan, Killinger, Knox, Laubach, Lewis, Myer, Scofield, Sellers, Sha man, Steele, Straub, Welsh, Wilkins, Wright and Tag gart, Speaker—24. Nats—Messrs. Crabb, Cresswell, Finney, Gregg, Harris, Penrose and Souther—7. So the question was determined in the affirmative. On the question, Will the Senate agree to the second amendment? The yeas and nays were taken agreeably to the pro visions of the Constitution, and were as follow, viz: Ysas— Messrs. Brewer, Browne, Cresswell, Ely, Evans, Fetter, Finney, Flenniken, Ingram, Jordan, KnoX, Laubach, Lewis, Myer, Sellers,Shuman, Souther, Steele, Straub, Welsh, Wilkins, Wright and Taggart, Speaker—23. Nats —Messrs. Coffey, Crabb, Fraser, Gregg, Harris, Killinger, Penrose and Scofield—B. Bo the question was determined in the affirmative. On the question, Will the Senate agree to the third amendment ? The yeas and nays were taken agreeably to the pro visions of the Constitution, and were as follows, vis ; YBAS—Messrs. Brewer, Browne. Crabb, Cresswell, Ely, Evans, Flenniken, Fraser, Ingram, Jordan, Killuiger, KnoX, Laubach, Lewis. Myer. Scofield. Sellers, Shuman, Souther, Steele, Straub, Welsh, Wilkins, and Wright Nats— Messrs. Coffey, Gregg, Harris and Penrose— 4. So the question was determined in the affirmative. On the question, Will the Senate agree to the fourth amendment ? The yeas and nays were taken agreeably to the pro visioas of tho Constitution, and were as follow, viz : Y*as—Messrs. Brewer, Browne, Coffey. Cresswell, Ely, Evans, Flenniken, Frazer, Ingram, Ktlhnger, KnoX, La aback .Lewis, Myer, Scofield, Sellers, Shuman, Sonther, Steele, Straub, Welsh, Wilkins aud Wright—23. Nats—Messrs. Crabb, Finney, Jordan and Penrose—4 So the question was determined in the Affirmative. lx sbb Hoes* or Rxr&Bsr.STAViTB3,) April 29. 3857. J The resolution proposing amendments to the Consti tution of the Commonwealth being under consideration, On tho question, Will the House agree to the first amendment ? The yeas and nays were taken agreeably to the provi sions of the Constitution, and were as follow, vii; Ybas —Messrs. Anderson, Arthur, Backhouse, Ball, Beck, Bishop, Bower, Brown,Calhoun, Campbell. Chase, Cleaver, Crawford, Dickey, Ent, Eyster, Fausold,’Foster, Gibbonev, GUdea, Ilamst, Harper, Heins, Hiest&nd, Hill, Uillegas, Hoffman, (Berks.) Imbrie, Innes, Jacobs, Jenkins, Johns, Johuson, Kauffman, Kerr, Knight, Lei sunring, Longaker, Lovett, Manoar, Mauglo, M’Calmout, M'livain, Moorhead, Mumma, Musselman, Nichols, Nicholson, Nunemacher, Pearson, Peters, Petriken, Fownall, Purcell, Ramsey, (Phil&delqhia.) Ramsey, (York,) Reamer, Reed, Roberts, Rupp, Shaw, Sloan, Smith. (Cambria,) Smith, (Centre,) Stevenson, Tolan, Vail, Vanvoorhis, Vickers. voeghley,Waiter, Westbrook, Wharton, Williaton, Wiiherow, Wright, Zimmerman and Gets, Speaker*- 78. Nava—Messrs. Backus, Benson, Dock,Hamilton,Han cock, Dine, Hoffman. (Lebanon,) Lebo, Strothers, Thorn, Warner and W'introde—l2. So the question was determined in the affirmative. On the question, Will tike House agree to the second amendment? *h« and nay* were taken agreeably to the provi sions of the Constitution, and were as follows, vis; ViaB—Messrs. Anderson, Backhouse, Ball, Beck, Bower, Calhoun, Campbell, Carty, Eot, Fausold, Foster, Gildea, Hamel, Harper, Ue]Qa,Hiestand, Uillegas, Hoff man, (Berks,) Housekeeper, Imbrie, Innes, Jenkins, Johns,Johnson, Kauffman, Knight, Leisenriuger, Longa* ker, Lovett, Manear, Maugle,M'livain, Moorhead, Mus sel man, Nichols, Nicholson, Nunemscher, Pearson, Pe ters, Petriken, Pownali, Purcell, Ramsey, (Philadelphia) Raraaey. (York,) Reamer, Roberta, Rupp, Shaw, Sloan, Tolan, Vail, Voeghley, Walter, Westbrook, Wharton, Zimmerman and Gets, Spuaktr— 67. ’ Natb— Messrß. Arthur, Augustine, Backus,' Benson Bishop, Brewn, Chase, Cleaver. Crawford, Eyster Gib beney, Hamilton, Hancock, Hill, nine, Hoffman. (Leb anon.) Jacobs, Kerr, Lebo, M'Calmont, Momma, Reed, Smith, (Cambria,) Smith, (Centre,) Stevenson, Stroth ers, Thorn, Vanvoorhis, Vickers, WagonseHer, Warner, Wintrode, Witherow and Wright-34. So the question was determined la the affirmative. On the question, Will the House agree to the third amendment * The yeas and nays were taken agreeably to the pro visions of (be Constitution, and were as follows, vie : Ybas.—Meers, Anderson, Backhouse, Ball, Beck. Benson, Bower, Brown, Calhoun, Campbell, Chase, Cleaver. Crawford, Dickey, Ent, Eyster, Fausold, fos ter, Gibnoney, Hamel, llorperr, Heins, Hiestaod, Hill. Uillegas, Hoffmau, (Berks,) Hoffman, (Lebanon,) Housekeeper, Imbrie, Ines, Jacobs, Johns. Johnson, Kauffman, Kerr, Lebo, Longaker, Lovett, Manear, Mangle, M’Calmont, Moorhead, Mamma, Musselman, Nichols. Nicholson, Nunemacher, Pearson, Voters, Pet riken, Pownali, Purcell, Ramsey, (York.) Reamer, Reed, Rupp, Shaw, Sloan, Smith, (Cambria,) Smith, (Centre,) Stevenson. Tolan, Vail, Vanvoorhis, Vickers, Voeghley, Wasonseller, Westbrook, Willlston, With erow, Wright, Zimmerman and Gets, Spenier—l2. Nats— Messrs. Arthur, Augustine, Backus, Bishop, Cariy, Dock, Gildea, Hamilton, Hancock, Uine, Jen kins, Knight, Leisenring, M’livain, Ramsey, (Philadel phia,) Roberta, Strothers, Thorn, Walter. Warner, Wharton and Wintrode—22. go the question was determined in the affirmative. On the question, Will tho House agree to the fourth amendment ? The yeas and nays were taken agreeably to the pro visions of the Constitution, and were as follow, vis; Ybas —Messrs. Anderson,Arthur, Backhouse, Backus, Ball, Beck, Benson, BJshep, Bower, Drown, Calhoun, Campbell, Carty, Chase, Cleaver, Crawforu, Dickey, Ent, Eyster, Fausold, Foster, Glbboney, Gildea, Hamel, Harper, Ileius, Uieitand, JliU, Hilegis, Hoffman, /Berks,) Hoffman, (Lebanon,) Housekeeper, Imbrie, luces, Jacobs, Jenkins, Johns, Johnson, Kauffman, Kerr, Lebo, Leisenring Longaker, Lorctt, Manear, Maugle, M’Caltuont, M’Uvalae, Mumma, Musselman, Nichols, Nicholson, Nunemacher, Pearson. Peters, I'e triken, Pownali PurceH, Ramsey, (Philadelphia.) Ram sey, /York,) Reamer, Reed, Roberts. Rupp, Shaw, Sloan, Smith, (Cambria,) Smith, (Centre,) Stevenson, Tolan, Vail, Vanvoorhis, Vickers, Voeghley, Wsgonseller, Walter, Warner, Westbrook, Wharton, tVilhston, Withorow, Zimmerman, and (Jets, Bjh*aker—S3. Nats—Messrs. Dock, Hamilton, Hancock, Strother*. Thorn, Wintrode aud Wright—7. go the question was determined in the affirmative. Skcritabt’s Ov?ic*, Ha&ftisßQio, June 23, Pemuy/tama, if. ’ bJ do eortify that tfc« fiboTi had fortftia a tmt Mi correct copy orthe “ You” and “Nan” 4V. resolution proposing >aend»>afiaVtti”«JSLsLTf the Commonwealths a* the same appeanttfthwSLS* nals of the two Houses of the GeuendSJSur-rtS: Commonwealth for the session of 1857. ***** Fl. a.] Witness my hand ,and the esal ef said (Am this twenty-second day of June, one thousand etehi hundred and fifty-seven. A. G. CURTIN aoS-mSm Secretary of the Common wealth. Haiirca&s. PENNSYLVANIA BAILE@AD.~THE A GREAT CENTRAL ROUTE, connecting the At - Untie Cities with Western, North-western, and South western States, by a continuous Railway direct, Tftk Road also connects at Pittsburgh with daily ’ steamers to all points on the neatern Rivers, and Cleveland and Sandusky with Steamers to all ports oa the North-western Lakes: making the mat DIRECT. CHEAPEST and RELIABLSitOUUS Ire which freight can be forwarded to and from the GREAT WEST. burgh 3 PHnAPEbPinA and pitta Fiust Cla as—Boots, Shoes, Hats, Caps, Books, Dry Goods, (ia boxes bales aud trunks), Drags, (in boxes „ B feathers, pore, Ac .75c. per 100 lb Sbcoxxj Class—Domestic Sheeting, Shirting and Ticking, (in original bales), Drugs (in casks), Hardware, Leather, (m rolls or boxes), Wool! M, d/keepPeJta,Eastwan},*e.,ke...EOe.w*f 100 b Tamo Class—Anvils, Steel, Chains. (in casks), Hemp, Bacon and Pork! salted, (loose or in sacks), Tobacco, manufactured, (except Cigars or ret Ac., AOc., per 130 lb Tocrtu Clam—Coffee, Fish, Bason, ' Beef, &od Pork, (io casks or talas eastward), Lard and Lard OIL Nails. Boda Ash, German Clay, Tar, Pitch, Rosin, Ac , >4oe. Mr 1031 b Floob—7sc. per bbl., until farther notice. Geaix—3sc. per 100 lbs., until farther notice. In shipping Goods from any point East of Phtiatel phia, be particular to make package 1 •' via Peniuvlwtut Saljrooi >i AUGood*conalgrolto the Arent/ol thU ’ Vf bU*ielpht», or PiSUbcrjh, will be forwultd without detention. P»«ioht Aol3TS—Harrie, Wormier & Co., HomriMe, Tbm.; R. ?. Bsas k Co., gt.Looi, Ht>. ; 4 800, Eraosnlle, Ind.; DnmeaeU, B«U A Mardocfc and Carpenter 4. Jewett, Louii.iUe, Kr ■ B C. Mel dram, JludUon, Imt • H. W. ilroTO * oi., ud Irrtl SCo cmciuoitii N. W. Gnahun ACo , ZwierriUe Oluo ; Web * Co., So. M Kllbrrtreet, Boston ; L<£3 “ r ' () - “ Aitor Boom, Kev York. No. 1 William .t m.M N s°V Ne« York-, S. }. Soeedu k *»““» Baltimore; D. A. Stewart, Pittsburgh. „ H. H. HOCSTOS, General Freight Agent, Philadelphia. . H. J. LOMBAERT, Superintendent, Altoona, Pa.r ]\TEW VOBK LINES—THE CjUCDSH i . AND AMBOY RAILBOAD AND PHILADELPHIA AND TRENTON RAILROAD COMPANY’S LINES PROM PHILADELPHIA TO NEW YORK. AND IF A PLACES. Le.ro aa folloirs, rit: Tiu At 1 A. M,. from Xeniiagton Depot, «. Jon»j tiny, Mail.... *SS At G A. M., Tia Camden and Jersey City, New Jer sey Accommodation At 8 A. M., via Camden and Amborr. Accow m,Jt^a^ tiou 4 ’ T ** end Jersey City, Homing A. M., by steamboat Trenton, via Tioony . Morning Express.. .7171. 3 At b r. u., tu Cusdds ud dffi}>or< O and A. Ex press | A ilafl M ‘ Tis C4mden ‘»fi Jersey Ci^Erenteg M., via Camden and Amboy, AecozomodA tion, Ist Class U-... t F. M., via Camden and Amboy, Aoooteaoda tion, 2nd Class 1 At 6P. M via Camden and iostay. Acoocuned*- tlon, Ist Class., a thin' 2nftf Cl 1 Amboy, Acoonunoda- The 5 p. M. line rous* (htily,* * all *othai*BnmUjni * Express Lines stop at the nrincipaJ ftattonifilir. ?°fß«\ T Were, Easton, Fbnaingtoor fro ® Wslnut itrtttvtaif. 4 * - For VV ater Gap, Stroudsburg, Scranton, WUkasbavr Montrose, Great Bend, Ac., at 8 A. M.. viaDelawax Lackawanna at West«m Railroad. For Freehold, at 6 A. H. andfiF. If For Mount Holly at 7 A. M., and 3# and 6F; w „ , WAY LINES For Bristol, Trenton, Ae.. at 2U and 4 P.M. - w w WAY LINE For Palmyra, Ran cocoa. Beverly, Burlington. Borden town do., at3P. M. WAY LINE Mount Holly, Burlington and WayStailosu at# Bteamboat RICHARD BTOCKTON fear Bttrihigtea wfi Bristol at B,H A. M • and lor Borden town intfumv diate places at2WP M Steamboat for Taesqyat 10and 22JL A, M., and 4 P. M., and for Burlington and Bristol at 4P. All lines, except 1 A. U., leave Walnut stree wharf. JTFTtfty poaadi ef baggage only allowed each pu* wnger. Pwaengers are prohibited from ttkln any thing as baggage but their wearing apparel. Au tSg gsgeorer fiitj pounds to be paid lor extra. The Coat panjr limit their responsibility for baggage to one dollar per pound, and will not be liable forcnyameiu4 bo yond $lOO, 'except by apecial contract. •ffM. H. OATZm, Xgent C. A A. 8. 2L CO. B. B. MORRELL, Agent Phil*.. Tr.lL R. Co. CHANGE OF HOURS—PHILADEL PHIA, WILMINGTON AND BALTIMORE BAIL BO AD. On And After Thursday, July 2d, H 57, PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE PHILADELPHIA Pot Baltimore At 8 A. 11., 1 P. M., (Express,) and P.U. Pot Wilmington at 8 A. If., 1, 4J5 and HP. X. For New Castle at 8 A. M.. 1 and 415 P. H. For Middletown at BA. M. and 4.15 P. H. . For Dover at 8 A. M. and 4.15 P. H. For Senford at 8 A. 11. and 4.15 P. If. TRAINS FOR PHILADELPHIA Leave Baltimore at 8.54, Express, 11 A. M., and 6-3® P. M. Leave Wilmington at 6 60 and 11.85 AM., and 2-8* and 8 65 P.M. Leave New Castle at 0.20 and u. 85 A. and 9M P.M, Leave Middletown at 10.00 A. M. and AOfc P. M. Leave Dover at 8.50 A. M. and TP. H. Leave Seaford at 7.00 A. M. and 4.00 P. M. TRAINS FOB BALTIMORE Leave Wilmington at A. M., 2 P. If. and 1217 -*.« «; SUNDAYS only at U p. U. from Philadelphia to Baltimore. do. do. 6RS P. M. (rasa Haiti more to Philadelphia. BALTIMORE AND HAVRE*®* GRACE ACOCMMG DATION TRAIN Leaves Ham de6raeeat6JQA.il. - - LftaTta Baltimore at 4.00 P. M. Freight Train, with Passenger Car attached, ▼in na as follows Leave Philadelphia for PerryriUa and intern: ediata placet at 6 60 P. M. Leave Wilmington for da. do. 8.00 P. M. Leave Wilmington for Philadelphia ai ODOP.K. aal-ly 8. U. FELTON, Pmideot. SPRING ARRANGEMENT*—PENN SYLVANIA CENTRAL RATT.rqaP Bnnnfnftli direct connection with the PITTSBURGH, FORT WAYNE AND CHICAGO RAIL- ROAD. For Cincinnati, St. Louis, lowa City, Louisville. New Orleans, St. Pauls, Indianapolis, Cleveland, -. Terre Haute, Chicago, Nebraska. In advance of all other routes out of Philadelphia, Farming close connection with nil tJU Great West ern Railroad f. THROUGH TRAINS Leave Philadelphia, for Pittsburgh and vestas cities, from the Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Static*, south-east corner of ELEVENTH and MARKET street*, (entrance on Eleventh street,) as follows: Mail Train at 7 A. M. - Fast Line at 12 (3, p, M. Express Mail at 31 00. Night. Columbia B. R. Line leaves for Harrisburg as 2.90, P. M., Lancaster }Accommodstion,) at 4.30, P. 3d. The Express Mail runs daily, the ether train*, Bu* days excepted. For further particulars see hand-bills, at the different starting-points. Passenger* from the West will find sl* the shortest and most expeditious route to Philadelphia, Baltimore, New York or Boston. THOMAS MOORS, Agent, Passenger Line Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Philadelphia, February, 185 T. aol-iy Philadelphia, Germantown AND NORRISTOWN RAILROAD—SUMMER AR RANGEMENTS. On and after May Mb, 1857. FOR GERMANTOWN. Leave Philadelphia at 6,7, S, 910-mia., 20, 11 X, A. M .j and 1. 2,3-10 min., 4,6, 6, t, 8, 9,11)4, P. M< Leave] Germantown at 6,7, 7-35, 8, O-lO min.. 10M ll*, A. M., 1,2, 3-10 win., 4, 6. 6,7, B,lo*. P. It. The 7*35 o’clock, A. M., train from Germantown, will not stop at intermediate Stations. ox fioxnar*. , p IgaTe Philadelphia at 9-20 A. 30, MttM Leave Germantown at 8-20,0*20 A. M..140,4K.0 15, and 7 P.M. ’ CHESTNUT HILL RAILROAD. Leave Philadelphia at 0,8, 940 min., Ilk A.K., 4,e,8,#,P.M. * Leave Chestnut Hill at 745, T-38. 30-10, 13-10. min., A. M., 140, 3-40, MO, 3-40,10-10 min., P. M. OX BCSDA.TB. Leave Philadelphia at 9-20 A. U., 2. and 8 P. M. Leave Chestnut Hill at 8 A. M., 12-00,440. and 9-49, S.M. ’ ’ ’ On and after May 4th, 1857. FOR MAKAYUKK, CONSHOHOCKRN, AND NOR R3SIOWN. Leave Philadelphia at 0,9, and 31, A. M., and 3,4 V, o*, andll*, P.M. * * Leave Norristown at T, 9, tad 31, A. M., a, and Ojff, P. 11. OS BPXDATB. Leave Philadelphia at 9 A. M., and 3 P. M. Leave Norristown at 7 A. M., and 8, P. M. Chester valley railroad.—for downih TOWN. Leave Philadelphia atfiA.H., andSP. M. Leave Downingtown at A- M., audl P. X. tu!4y HENRY K. SMITH, Gen’l Supt Depot, NINTH and GREEN streets, Philadelphia. ]\TORTH PENNSYLVANIA BAILKOAD. IV FOR BETHLEHEM, EASTON, ALLENTOWN# MAUCU CHUNK, WILKRSBARRE, DOYLE3TOWN, THROUGH TO BETHLEHEM WITHOUT CHANG* OP CARS. On and after Wednesday, July Bth. 1857, the train* on this Road will leave as follows, daily, (Sunday* ex. cepted: For Bethlehem, Easton. Allentcwp, Msuch Chunk, Wilkeabarre, Ac., via Lehigh Talley Railroad. Morula* Express, at 6 35 A.M. For Bethlehem, Easton, Allentown, Msuch Chunk, Valley Railroad, Evening Expreai, at ill Passeuger* for Easton by 215 P. M. train take starve at Iron Hill station. 4 p 0 j I Do J ledtow ’ 11 ’ (Accommodation) at 8 45 A. M. and For Gwynedd, (Accommodation) at 6 S& P. M. T RETURNING. Leave Bethlehem at 915 A. M. and S44P. M. with Passenger*, via Lehigh Valley Railroad, from Easton. Allentown, Manch Chuck, Wilkeabarre, Ac., arrivinw In Philadelphia at 1210 M. and 545 P. M. Leavo Doylestows, (Aecommodatien) at 045 A. X. and 410 P. M. Leave Gwynedd, (Accommodation) at 6 50 A. M. OX SUNDAYS. Leave Philadelphia for Doyleatown, (Aecotomedattaa at 8 30 A.M. and 5 45 P. M. Leave Doylestawa for Philadelphia, (AeeoUßnodaiian at«A.M and 315 P. M. Fare to Bethlehem . • |3 40 Fare to Maoch Chunk . , .2 00 Fare to Wilkesbarre . * 440 Passenger Depot, FRONT and WILLOW Streets »°*4/ ELLIS CLARK, Agent. SUtontejis at £an>, J. J. Michel.) Michel & koontz— ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Camp Strttt , iVnr Orltaas _ , , _ MFIM3CIS IX FSILJD*LPfi:A ; Caleb Cope 4 Co., 3&3 Market »tnet. Smith, Murphy 4 Co., ?7 Market rtreot. Wm. U Brown 4 Co.. 108 Market itroet f QEORGE D. AKMSTBONG, ATTOB - NET AT LAW AND CONVKTANCKS 15* Lombard itreot, below Broad. KplT'lta^^ DOUGHEBTY, ATTORNEY MTa«^4vt»? USE ’ attorney at CSMItE itral, Poitarilla, p». m.i T WRITS TOKPENTINE-200 bbls Spirit* Turpenoa*, to arrive, for sal* br * MAKTIN A ICACAUSTXK. 110 Kerth Water Stuet P. CALDWBLL-WholS«Je [Tf. Jr. Koorr*. [milT.Sm*