:.Office, Ne.4l7Ch«stnut Stoiet,' •«» .t**.vi*.¥Jeri.»>i.-12. ■■J-'J ■-■<»?. *-- •'■< • -• '| •" to ts* canW ‘ ~ V\ j 2 :'£JSstJ:S&S u tefis9*s. < »« of tUepity at six Damns ■ L'Av *5k I & U, t? 8 BraH*.>.MA*ii| ■»t’;;,:''-.t'. - ,, PRESS- --> f V” ' WEKKtV PRESS. ■ *• ««>* to Satmrlben •-* s^t^rr*’^ 4 - -‘••j *j s 3?lra OoplX* ’, « •••«••—j™ •; . '^copiM;-,«; i! g - wSS?2° p i M| "iV ■•• !‘ (toom> »d(irea»)..".!. so 00 . ’ «, /to. «dOtM» of ■■ *• each..;...i.............,*. 120 ■- t n ■■■- Tifwa i lS'i?“S 4 “ a ' I * IUMt ® dt9 Mt “ **f to *»* v.'. .. .-(• -a?? u>j.-pftP*»«!P»w*. mua. •' ! etuKMn. , SB “ i ; M °“W ?“■ to* ■ for th«: California ifliliiueri \ BERtfHEIM & CO., *•> a SOOTH SECOND STREET, H»re row on Land a. complete Stock of , fall And winter HILL INEBT GOODS,: Oonslfting of UtKNOH FLOWBRBi > .1 FSATtCEKB/v' ' ' BIDBONB, : ' ROCHES, <■2 0? BONNET MATERIALS^ Asd other millinery good*. We ire oonitantly tn iking addition! to ov Stock * rom thfdllfowiii Motion g»’W In New*York andlPhl and.-bave JoatreceiTed a beautiful lot of ; ' ■’ ribboks, , ! Well ‘worth the Attention,of the Trade, Onr.atoek of 210WSBS and ZBATHEBS iainow •eomplete, the pricM'of itbioh here heea’ edaiUahbto 1 _ reduced. ‘ 1 ' ‘" } Merchafits andiitlUner* are invited to eaU at 1 Mv BBKNHBIU Jfc 00.»5., 1 ; No. 21 South BKOOND Street. ' JUST RECEIVED, 100 OASES J I COLORED STRAW BONNETS, 1 .0000 SITUS. PHIOEB FROM so; OTB.' UPWARDS. j ALSO, 100 0 Aft TOSS OF FRENCH FLOWERS, . FEATHERS, RIBBONS, •ILK AND.'VELVET BONNETS, *O. ; LINCOLN, WOOD, & NICHOLS, j ' 46 SO<JTR SECOND STREET, ■Poor Boon above Ohestnut, (TJTH' SECOND STREET. i Bayern o( MILLINERY GOODS, 'Vlil find nil prepared to exhibit e moat complete and •olegaat accortaent of ' . | Wetr Btylei BONNBT MATERIALS, * ‘ - JUBfiONg, in Immenae variety. ERENOH fcnd AMERICAN J LOWERS, JHATHHRB, RUSHES, tcc., fto. Alao, a beautiful Stock of - , STB ATT GOODS, ,<ooiqpxiftegaU the desirable Styles. sue PRlORS,which era fixed end uniform, ere graduated at e .. „ 1 HXNIIttJM ADVANCE UPON COST,' Borides wMoh we allow - Yg Yeß CENT. 808 CASH, DEALERS from a distance, who may not be ,airiW of the existence of sndh an Establishment, OUT OP MARKET STREET, will benefit theuaelrea by! a iJrit to • \ / * i ■ i «. A. H. ROSENHEIM & BROOKS, ! . .Ho. 33 South SECOND Stmt, above Chestnut,) eaSMtoorl ) ' J HLLBORN . . i - iv «l»0»AOIOM» «D*TBOLBBiLI EaiLJ» HI 1 FANCY SILK AND STRAW BONNETS, ••! AMIFItHAI, FLOWERS, RUCHES, to. [ .* BOW FUR AND- WOOL HATS. . ! Ths attention of dtj dealers Is inritod 4o a l»rg# acd'rarledstock wtiio above goods, at : .. 43 9 l. SXR E ET, ! /MfU-iOv • BELOW FIFTH.; ffiatiictings. E WO ABB Eli KG S'. J A MES -H . OEKE, OHEBIM-I STB BBT, ! '. BELOW SEVENTH, Rflj.ni of CARPETINGS will Sod, among oar Now Gooda, a largo Tarlety of cholco design a, ujeotai In Harope.dorlng tho jut Mioon; at Uauaoallj low prices. IntheaboTOlOnUrgft'irarietxof' ‘ Brussels. tapestry carpets, ONE DOLLAR PER YARD JAMES E.'OBSE, CHESTNUT STREET, BELOW. SEVENTH! JgAIEY &BBOTREH,' - 1 HoV #So'bHEBTNTJT STREET, -WILL OPEN THIS DAT , 'TheirEall Importation -» • • :S, ot -•■■■■ ' OABPETIKQS, ■dS-tfj ‘ a* ./ PJftICBS GREATLY REDUCED. :C u M mu. ELLINGTON BRUBBBLS, SUPER ALL-WOOL INGRAINS, EXTRA PINE INGRAINS, DOUBLE COTTON CHAINS INGRAINS, | YSNITIANB, AND LOWER GRADES, Of ehotee styles tad Approved manufacture, constantly. rwetrlDg md r t?r isle by MlO too2l i No*. 130 and 130 CHESTNUT St. Aboh-stbeet carpet vr abe- HOUBE.—We have.received oarfell supply of ‘Carpetings, and bar* s 'tine of the ; 1 i-.l . :HAWDBOMfBT IN THE OITV. All tba neV styles’ of Velvet. Tapestry. Brussels) Three plv. Ingrains aodVeultisns of the boat make, bought at . ' , • 'VBfIV LOW, PR 10S3 fOR CASH, tabs sold aorqrdtogly,• With a full assortment of ' OIU CLOTHS, BtttrdaETa; 4e. Wo have alt the goods tutoally kept In a FIBST-OLASS BcTABMBHMBNT, . aod are prepared to sell them at extremely. WW PBIOEB FOR OASII. • - -n ,r ; OX.DDBN H RIOKNBR, • 833ARGH Street, 3 doors below Ninth. Boots onD Sljoea. & "HABKIS, KANUP AOTUBEBS AND WnOLBBALI DEALERS v BOOTS AND SHOES,. -K. W. Ooraer THIRD and ABOH Street*, *• »oSS-Rm : ' ' PHILADELPHIA. JjIALL STOCK" 09. ... < BOOTB AND SHOBB. « JOSEF® 'H. - IHOMPBok A CO., Ho. SH MARKET BTBEBT, . S W s fBANKiIN PLACE,.. ■its lot anoii'i umi'uii) vsu. jlmomsd . i SOO?B ; 4KJ> SHOBS, ■ • ~01 OITT iAa»..i'ABMRN MAHniAOTDRB. ' Ttfhloh thiijr offer tof ttii on ttio (n«t termi (or ouh, «onth«P«i •»’ fifetll ini •uralno tbotr itock, ' ’ MOOTS 'jLNl>-,ShOßa.—Tbe' mbsoriber m tu on luuid» jMM'ind nH«4"«t<»k ot BOOTB ud SHOES. whlok ht, tie lowest prld«*. ••; • - ,'i eiO.W.TAYLOBj - r^-U'=:.i^M.a<ym!uraXStM r HAaxsft*. gaM^nn^Jntneaagtiinwinaa. . roanfo •; , •-. ,-t^i'r ■■ -; •*».■** MDLEB*, .'• ■ -- *5 ■ *.- 3 »•- c*rrz *JIO DEALERS IN OIL CLOTHS. The subscriber having superior facilities for fdann factoring ELOOB, TABLE, STAIR, and - CARRIAGE OIL CLOTHS, Xfl now prepared to offer groat lmlncfliconie to Bilye re from all parts of the country. . A large and'eholoe 8 took Constantly on hand. Great care will bo taken In selecting Dea. who order hy mail.' WAREHOUSE, Ho. 320 AROH Street, Phlla. antS-Sm* THOM AS POTTER, Mannfaetnrer, £JABPETINGS, <®ooirs, Ow Geaelgament, a large lot of INGRAIN AND VENETIAN CARPETS, To he sold at AUCTION PRICES for Cash or City Ac ceptances.' Jy2o-frraAwtf JJLABON & SMITH, OIL CLOTHS, WAREHOUSE, 140'NORTH THIRD STREET, Own to the trade a fall stook of floor Oil Olotha. twdfom and extra quality enamelled Muslin Drill* ana Dees. Table Oil Olotha, new etylea: green glased Oil Oloth tor window shade*. , A eomplete assortment of Window Shades, trimmings, fte. We invite the attention of dealers to oar stock, aal 8-202 JJIDGWAY, HEHSSNEH, & 00., <p CLOTHS, BOLB AOBKTB 80* THB BOLLOWIBQ CELEBRATED MANUFACTURERS »&BD. KBOKENS, (iittlo Hoist,) W. A. JOHANNY, Abhoe, OBVERS A 80HMIDT, (S And M Cloth*,) ZAMBONA BROTHGHS, (Fancy CoßalmerM,) BBOrCH A LAMBERTS, <P and B Clothi,) B. TOBNNIEB A Co!, P. a. HKBBMAN A SON, (Mown Cloth) HASELOVP A 00. N». SOS CHESTNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. H. W. RIDOWAT, CHAS. UEOSSNBR. JJIOHAKDSON’S IKISH LINENS, DAMASKS, DIAPHIRS, Aco. CONSUMERS of RICHARDSON’S liINENB,and those desirous of obtaining the GENUINE. GOODS, should eee that the articles the/ purchase are sealed with the fall name of the firm, BIOHAEDSON, SONS, 4 0 WIDEN, As a guarantee orihe soundness and durability of the Good a. This caution Is rendered essential]/ necessary as large quantities of inferior and defeotird Linens are prepared, season after season, and sealed-with the name of RIOHAEDBON. by Irish houses, who, regardless of the injury thus inflicted alike on the Amerloan consumer and the manufacturers of the' genuine Goods, will not readily abandon a business so profitable, while pur chasers can be imposed on with Goods of a worthless character. J. BULLOCKS & JT. B. LOCKE, my3B-flm Agents. 80 OHUBOH Street, New York. rj-IHE. STATE SAVINGS FUND, INTEREST PIVE PER CENT Mono, retetrwl Dailt, and erer, MONDAY BTENINO, INSUMSLABOR AND SMALL, JROM 0 O’CLOCK A. M. TO 8 O’CLOCK P. M. dwositorb oar .raw tiibir xorrt bt obbokb, is J. BENEY H* YES.Teller. THE SPRING GARDEN SAVING FUND. fOwmio »T_troi_Lioroi 4 jL i fuMii o^Pikbbtlyasli.) flVl PER CENT. Interest allowed to Depositor!, • end all Moneys Paid b&ok on Demand. OFFICE, S3l SOUTH THIRD STREET, - , (OOHSOMDATIOa Ban Buildiko.) This Xnstlfotion is now. open for the transection of business, and is the only Chartered Baring fond located la the northern part of the city. / The Office will be open (daily) from 9 to 2M o’clock, and also os MONDAYS and THURSDAYS, from A ant!/ 9 o’clock in the Evening. MANAGERS. Frederick Elett, James 0. Pringle, : Stephen Smith, - Jacob Dock, .. JohnP Lory, Joseph M Cowell, -Hon. Henry K, Strong, George Woelepper, Danlenindetkoder. J. "Wesley Bray, ' Hon; Wm. MUlwara, Robert B. Davidson, ’ Frederick Btaake, P. 0. Ellmaker, . Francis Hart, John P. Vorree, . Joseph P. Leolere, Oeorge Eneeht, ' John Kessler, Jr., John Horn. President. JAMES B. PRINGLE. Secretary, GEQRGB T. THORN. ajtfl-iftf CSAVING. FUND UNITED STATES K? TELDBT COUP ANT, eorsu of THOU) »nd OHBST. irorßirMtf. ’ - Large and email tans received, and paid book on do wuAj without notice, with »rVB PEB CENT. INTIB JBST from ths fay. of deposit to tbs dsj of withdraws!. Office hoars, from 9 notil 5 o'clock every day, and ob tfOKDAY EVENINGB from T until 9 o’clock. SHAFTS for a ale on England, Ireland, end Scotland, trom £1 upwards. President—STEPHEN B. OBAW7QBD. Treoaorer—PLlNY KBK. *olU*-JAKB3 11. HUNTXS CAVING FUND—FIVE PEE GENT. IN. <3 TKRSST—NATIONAL SAFETY TRUST COM PANY.—WALNUT BTBBET, EODTH-WSST COBNSB OP THIRD, PHILADELPHIA. IKOOXFOIATKO fIY YHH STAYS 07 PmrVSYLTABM. . Money is rooeived in any sou, large or small, and in* total paid from the day or deposit to the day of with* towel. Thoofloe is open every day from 9 o’clock In the mornlng.tlll 6 o’cloca In the evening, and on Monday and Thursday evenings till 8 o’olook. . HON. HENRY L. BENNBB, President, BORIBT. OELYRIPSI, Yiae President, Wtf. J. Bbbd, Secretary. DiaSOYOSBi Hon. Henry L. Benner, J. Carroll Brewster, Bdward L. Carter, Joseph 11. Nazi , • Robert SelfridgC, Francis Low. - Baml. K. Ashton, Joseph Verses, , 0. Lan&reth Monnf, Henry Dlffenderffer, Money is reoeived and payments made daily. The Investments are made in oonformity with th« provision* of the Charter, in REAL EBTATB MORT &AGEB, GBOUND RENTS, and suoh first class securi* ties as will always insure pirfect security to the deposi* tors, and which cannot fail to fire nemanenaj ana sta bility to this TnstHutlon *ul-ly RE. CORSON, • REAL ESTATE BROKER. JOSEPH LEA, W*™EBS & PETERSON, FT " BROKERS, No. 89 South THIRD Street, (East «ide.) Promissory Notes. Drafts,. Acceptances. Ac.. ma* taring in this or other States, promptly collected, and parties advised immediately on roceipt of funds. Drafts at eight or a few days to run, cashed at mode* rate rates. Southern, Eastern, Western, and Pennsylvania State Money bought at low figures. Drafts drawn on all the principal cities in the Union. an2l-2m' _____ A UGUST BELMONT, £%l BANKER, T 0 BRAVER STREET, - nw roaa. Issues Letters of Credit, available to Travellers, on all parts of the world. jeBo-8m riBONISE & 00., \J OPBOIB AND BXOHANCHS BROKERS, No. 40 South THIRD Street, TBILADBI.VHU. Refer to the Baskb and Biouxb of Philadelphia. JeMy . oBiB.mih.ir. ir. h.bbow*.- M a NLET, BROWN, & 00., WJL DANK-NOTB, STOCK, AND BXOHANQB ' ' BEOKBHS, m . H. W.oomrof THIRD and CHKBTNDT Btroeta, • rau/lbnLrau, Collections made. and Drafts drawn* on slip arte of tne United States and the Canadas, on the most favorable terms. Collections made, and Drafts drawn on England and Ireland. ■ Unonrrent Bank „ Notes -bought. Band Warrants bought and sold. Dealers in Speoie and Bullion. Loans andjllme Paper negotiated. Stooks and Loans Mnght and sold on OommlMlon st Ui'e Board ef Brokets In Philadelphia and New Tfork, jefl-6m ■ * ' ! • • EDWARD B. PARRY, WOHARD B. PARRY, Hotair PobHo for OommfMton.r for jSmewta, PoAMjrlTMta ul Ho w Jtntj. PA BB T & BSOI H B *i BROKERS & OBNBRAL LAND AGENTS ud oom inoiiT B sb'RZXr, «a«>. bioborl, MANKATO, MINNESOTA, _ „ _ Pay particular attention to loping ana wsstln K Honor for non-residente and othere, and oolleottag Drafts. Notes, &o. Any. letters of ssqmaT or business will reoelve prompt attention. Refer to Wood Bacon, A Go., Philadelphia. ’ Daltf, boh, it Withers, Philadelphia. Bharp,-Haines, & Go.-, Philadelphia. Biohard Bandolph, Philadelphia, * Charlesßllie & Qo., Philadelphia. , Parrjr*Af;Banddlph, Pbiladelohla. njto'Bm* Plasma ob abtifioial lakd.— BPBOtAL NOTION To PHtSIOI ANS.—Tho above offers a vehicle for the exhibition of remedies to dis eased surfaces, which combines the following advanta ges : .A good and unvarying consistence, easily washed off with all substances that are’solu ble In water,- henca ttollttating Instead of obstmotini thei** absorption, and dett -not, g<( The tee 'property alone, fenders -it an invaluable acquisition to the practitioner. _ Prepared and for sale wholesale and retail,at ' SIMM'S Laboratory end Pharmacy.' 1 - 11 ‘Twelfthand QhHtotttstreets *■ * rent news of the d*j In their particular localities, tfa« VOL. 2— NO. 61. Wholesale JDrg (SSaobs JUST RECEIVED FROM TUB MANUFAOTURBRB, WOXfFH,~'WJLSON, & CO., No. 132 CHESTNUT Stroot. MANUFACTURERS OF PHILADELPHIA, IMPORTERB OF DOESKINB, and CASSIMEBEB. Samttgfl 'Stoato*. No. 241 DOCK STREET, HKXT DOOR TO'THE TOST OMIOH OH SHtOBK, PAID BACK DAILY , tS BASK, If CESiafiD. . GBO. H. HART, President. OHAB. G. IMLA7, Treasurer. *«23-tfaal PERPETUAL CHARTER. JBrokers. Money Loaned on Bond and Mortgage. Collections promptly made. NOBBISTOWH, PA 1858 FALL GOODS. 1858 Tn t Subscribers beg leave to Inform their friends, and country merchants generally, that their stock of HOSIEBY, GLOVES DRAWERS, . WOOLLENS, and SMALL WARES, Is now oomptete, comprising tholr usual assortment, and whloh they xrill sou at the lowest market rates. They would especially call attention to their stook of BUCKSKIN GLOVES AND MITTENS. Comprising the HANOVER, GERMANTOWN, JOHNSTOWN, AND OTHER DESIRABLE MAKEB, Which they have purchased directly from the Manu facturers for cash, and are now prepared to sell at reduced rates. SHAFFNER, ZIEGLER, & 00., IMPORTERS AND IOBDERB, 36 N. FOURTH Street, Phllndelphie, Near tbo Herohanta’ Hotel, QtJTNTIN CAMPBELL, Jr., & CO., IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS HOSIERY, PANOY GOODS, No. 341 MARKET STREET, Northeast Corner of FOURTH. H. A. SnAauiLvoao, an!2-2m jpIALL STOOK OF CLOTHING. CHARLES HARKNESS & SON, No. 888 MARKET STREET, SOUTHEAST OORNBIt OP POURTH, Hare now in store a large and splendid assortment of PALL and WINTER CLOTHING, manufactured ex* pressly for the Southern and Western Trade, which they offer for sale on the beat terms for Cash, or on the usual Credit. BUYERS are invited to call and examine or thezn selres. aulMm 1858 SILK GOODS. 1858 PALL IMPORTATIONS. ROSS, Sc 691 MARKET STREET, *lB COMMERCE STREET, PHILADELPHIA. Have now in store their complete IMPORTATION OP SILK AND PANOY GOODS, To which the attention of the TRADE Is invited. aul4»2m gMITH, MURPHY, & CO., SOT MARKET BT. AND 228 OHUBOB ALLBY, Are sow opening A FRESH STOCK. STAPLE AND PANOY DRY GOODS, To whloh the, Invite the Attention of CASH AND PROMPT ’SHORT TIME BUYERS, Pun.Anai.rßia, August, 1808. au24-2m JgHAFLEIGH, RUE, & 00., WHITE GOODS, LINENS, EMBROIDERIES, LAOS GOODS, Ae. Ho. 820 MARKET STREET, JjIALL STOOK BILK AND FANCY GOODS. HERRING- & OTT, N. w. Comoro! FOURTH and MARKET BTRBHTB, Hare now In store a splendid assortment of SILKS, RIBBONS, AND FANCY GOODS OP THEIR OWN IMPORTATION, Bo which* they invite the attention of , PIRST-OLAS3 BUYERS. nlB>3m J T. WAY & CO., Noe. 221 MARKET Street and 10 GHUBOH Alley. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS MI aoo DS, Are now fully prepared for the FALL TRADE, The completeness of their Stock, both for VARIETY'AND PRIOEB, WiU be found to offer advantages to buyers, unsur passed by any other in this country. aiQl-3m JjIALL STOOK, FITHIAN, JONEB, A 00., No. 21ft MARKET STREET, IHSOOOH TO No. 204 CHURCH ALLEY, Hare now in store a SEASONABLE DRY GOODS, To which they invite the attention of Bayers from alt ports of the Union. aui6-2in jgITER, VAN UULIN, & GLASS, WHOLESALE DEALERS IN HOSIERY, GLOVES, FANCY GOODS, &o, No. 428 MARKET STREET, ABOVE FOURTH, PHILADELPHIA. aulB-2m & KNOWLES, IMPORTERS AND WHOLESALE DEALERS HOSIERY, GLOVES AND FANCY GOODS, (HAY* MKOTID TO) Noe. 480 MARKET AND 42ft MERCHANT STS., And have just opened a NEW AND COMPLETE STOCK OP GOODS, expressly adapted to To which the attention of their customers and FIRST CLASS BUYERS is Invited. anl7-dtnovl gOQAFFBR & ROBERTS, No. 429 MARKET STREET, IkPOBTBSfI AJTD JOSBIBS OF HOSIERY, GLOVES, SMALL WARES, COMBS, BRUSHEB, TAILORS’ TRIMMINGS, LOOKING-GLASSES, GERMAN AND FRENCH FANCY GOODS. a024-2m MmbreUqa anft ffargsolg. & FENNER, UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS, No. 838 MARKET STREET, INVITB THE ATTENTION OV BDYBBB, *. maxlry, n, LAME AND VARIED STOCK. JpHOSPHATIO GUANO. 9yMO BARBELS AND BAGS PROM SOMBRERO ISLAND, Em Btm art to nle bj *OB. B. HANSON fc 00., aad He. IS* North DELAWARE Avcna., CAMPBELL’. DINING SALOON, Corner of THIRD fit. u>d HARMONY COURT, Hae been eloaod for .o.oral day. paat, in order to be regenerated and disenthralled, it will bo opened on MONDAY next, 20th irist . with improvement, and al teration! which will aitoniah the town. The hoit hu thrown hl» eonl Into the ta.lt or iron nil, and we think that hla effort! will meet with untnereal approbation. When reopened It will be a model eatabUahment. eell-tf rrtNGLISH VERMILLION and ULTRA WjJ MARINE BLUE, eipeolally Imported for Fainter! and Printer!. Put np in I 8 MIT-lro* 241 DOOK atreet. np atalre. LARD.— 144 bblß. prime Western Leaf Bard, kettle rendered, Imt received and for iale bj C. 0. BADLSB 4 CO,, •eig ABOH Street, ?d door ebon front. ®rs <3>oo&a Jobbers. shirts, GLOVES, and QOIKTIM OIttPBBLL, J», IMPORTERS PHILADELPHIA. COMPLETE STOCK IMPORTERS AID f'ALL TRADE, MANUfACTUBBB9 OP To Their Om.Ut North WATER Btreat, PHILADELPHIA. MONDAY, OCTOBER l|, 1858, Nfito Tyt. K&NE FOR THE CHILDREN I— JL' A NEW GAME FOR TOE LITTLE FOLK? AT HOME. Fouuded ou the vf©nd©Tful TravoU of Dr* ELISQA K KANE to the ABOTIO SEAS. It i» thta day PUULISIIIiD unit FOR SALK by PETERSON* BROTHERS,' No. 800 CHESTNUT Btreot. This 1b a very pretty, and amusing and instructive round Game for Young People. All the cUar&o era Wholher of MEM, or ANIMALS, or SHIPS, in the MAhVEM.oUa ADVENTURES, are faUhfully intro duced bf illustrations, and tbe *trlf« of the Game ia to keep tbo Doctor and his ship and JONATHAN ahead. WHOLESALE AND UE9AIL This now aud beauti ful Game will be sold for Two Dollars per doeen, or TWKNYY.PIV* OENTS the SINGLE GAME. WHOLESALE DEALERS* should send in thoir or ders at once to the PUBLISHERS, T. B. PETKR«ON & DBOTHERS No. SOd CHESTNUT titwot. WTORKS OP STANDARD AUTHORS. „»» IMPORTANT ANNOUNOEMBNt! GREAT EEDDCI'ION IN PIUCKS! , , FOR CASIt! ~ AtT. 0. PETERSON * BROTHERS’ CHEAP BOOK STORE, Ho &o fl CHESTNUT ST. From their immense stock of Mjsobli.ax*oiisßoojc9, «,t deduced prices for cash, they would epeolfy a few of the Standard . POETS ANR NOVELISTS, Sunerbly hound and elegantly illustrated: Homer’s Works, Shakupeirfi’a Works, Drydon’s Works, Pope’s Works, Oowper’sWorks, Milton’s Works, Bvron’s Works, Robert Burns's Works, • Tdob. Moore’s Works, Ciinpbell’s Works, , • 1 Fielding's Works, Smollett’s Works. These are all large Royal Octavo Volumes, printed on superfine paper, Illustrated with steel engravings, and splendidly bound in various styles. On those magnificent works for every Library, a re* duction is now being mado at PBTBRBONB*. of TWENTY. TWENTY FIVE, & THIRTY PER CENT. From the Publishers’ own RETAIL PBrCES. BIBLES, ALSO! LARGE FAMILY QUARTO BlBLEB—Beautifully gUt and well bound—containing, in all completeness, APOCRYPHA, CONCORDANCE. And PS ARMS, At cheaper rates then were ever offered by any Cook Houso in Philadelphia. Call at the store, 300 OHM9T* NUT, above THIRD. Look at the JUBLEP—the POETS—the PBAYKRB—the HYMN BOOKS-and all the immensity of Miscellaooons BeadiOffs. POtt SALE AT TUK OIIBaP BOOK STORE OP • T. B. PETERSON & BROTHERS, No 300 CUES * NUT Street. JAS. CHALLEN & SON, , t No. 25 fcouth SIXTH Streot, Publish this day t ’ CHALLEN'B NEW JUVENILE LIBRARY, 2d IS*. rlesflO voR, Illustrated. Adapted to the Sunday School and F#mMy Net sectarian. Also, new editions of OHALLEN'S NEW JUVENILE LIBRARY. Berles No. 1. Illustrated. I These books h*ve been enuersed by Sunday Schools of every denomination 10 vols. $2 60. “ THE OITY OF TIIE GREAT KING.” “The niost accurate and reliable Account of modern Jerusalem yet given In the Engli»h language Bib. Sacra < IN bxRIA, Cloth, 76 cents j blue and gold IN AND AROUND STAMBOUL, $1 26. OAVK OF MAOHPBLAH, and other Poems, 76 cts.: bine and gold, sl,* «fco., Ao. seSO-2m 0I)O£ linbittga. JgJBTTIN W. PAYNE, ISON BUILDING, ARCH BTREET, Ono door abovo Fourth. IMfOttTStt iso DBALBR IS LA6TINQ3. GALLOOKB, FRENCH KID, CONGRESS WEBB, TOILET SLIPPERS UPPERS, SLIPPER TRIMMINGS, LACKS, &o. auW-Sm TVOTIOE TO SHOE MANUFACTURERS# 11 The undersigned (successors to the late JOSEPH T. JOHNS) are now prepared to meet the wants of the trade at the OLD STAND, Northeast corner of AROHand FOURTH Streets. Their facilities for IMPORTING and FURNISHING every article In the SHOE STUFFS and TRIMMINGS line, at moderate prices and on favorable terms, are unsurpassed. Tha attention of BUYERS is regretfully solicited WM. JOnNB & SON, N. B. cotuer Arch and Foarth eta. {Dissolutions unit CouaTlnersliips. PEMBERTON S. HOTOHINSOtf lma THIS D\Y aaaoclat'd with blm SAMUEL R. SHIPLEY anil SPENDER H. HAZARD, in the Dry Good. Dooimiaaion Duaineee, OoTonßn 1.1858. pO-PARTNERSHIP.—WE, the under signed, .have TIILS DAY formed a 00-P*rtner ship, for the transaction of a GKNKRAL DRY GOODS COMMISSION BUSINESS, undor the Firm of SHIP LEY, HAZARD, & HUTCHINSON, ».t No 112 CHEST NUT Street. SAMUEL it. SHIPLEY. SPENCER H HAZARD, PEMBERTON 8. HUTCHINSON. •, PfllLADßLrnu, Oct. 1,1868. ocM2t FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC GOODS, SHIPLEY, HAZARD, A HUTCHINSOfi, No. 112 Ohesmut street, (Offer for sale DRILLS, JEANS, SHKETINGS, SHIRTINGS, MARINER BTRIPEB OSNABURGHB, FLANNELS, BROWN, BLEACHED, AND COLORED MUSLINS In all wMihn from the BALTIC MAN’G CO., BATES MAN’G CO., NORTHVILLK DO. LOWELL DO. FAIRUILL DO. WEST 110YLST0N DO. Alfio, Templeton Mills Doeskins ana Fancy Caesimerea, Wrodwanl do. do. do. Saxony Mill do. do. do. Together with alarge assortment of desirable Foreign Goode. ocl-lm pO-PARTNERSDIP.—THE BUSINESS V-J heretofore conducted by Hunt. Webster, A Co., will from this date be carried on under the style and firm of LADD, WEBSTER, A 00., who will continue the manufacture and sale of Sewing Machine**, the former in Boston. the latter at 620 OUEBTNUT Street, Philadelphia, and in the principal cities of the Union. September 1,1608. se27-lm @*tUlemen’6 JFnrnisljina (Koobo. rarmOHESTER & 00», GENTLEMEN'S If FURNISHING STORK PATENT SHOULDER BEAM SHIRT MANUFAC TORY, At the Old Ftaod, No. 706 CHESTNUT STREET, oppo site the Washington House A. WINCHESTER will give. a« heretofore, his per sonal supervision to the Cutting and Manufacturing departments. Orders for bis celebrated style of Shirts and Collars filled at the shortest notice. Wholesale trade supplied on liberal terms. jy24-ly JW, SCOTT, (lato of the firm of IVin • tmxsTßß A SOOTT,) GENTLEMEN’B FURNIBH ING BTORE and SHIRT MANUFACTORY, 814 OHESTNUT Street, (nearly opposite the Girard House,) Philadelphia. J. W. 8. would respectfully call the attention of h!s former patrons and friends to his nsw Store, and Is pre pared to fill orders for BIIIRTS at shore notice. A perfect fit guarantied. COUNTRY TRADE supplied with FINE BHIRTB and COLLARS. jyl9-tf ijjata anb Caps & 00., NO. 823 MARKET STREET, hath mw ra sroBH as ENTIRB NEW BTOOK of HATS AND CAPS, TO WHICH THEY INVITE THE ATTENTION OF BUYERS FROM ALL PARTS OF THI UNION. aulo-2ra* _ H. GARDEN & CO., KAKUFAOTURBRS OF, AHI) WBOLBBALB DIALBBB IK, HATS, CAPS, FUllSj STRAW GOODS, FANCY BILK AND STRAW BONNETS, ARTIFI CIAL FLOWERS, RUCHES, FEATHERS, &0., Ac., No. 600 MARKET STREET, S. W. Cornor of Sixth street, Philadelphia. MERCHANTS are reapootfully Invited to examine our Stack. au!4-2m Seining iilacljines 'yyHEELER & WILSON 38 SEWING MACHINES,. REDUCED PRICES. NEW STYLE $5O. * All the- former patterns $25 loss on each Machluo, A NEW TENSION. NO WINDING OF UPPER THREAD. A IIEMMEU WHICH TURNS ANY WIDTH OF HEM OR FELL. 628 OHEBTNUT Street, Philadelphia, No. 7 WEST STATE Street, Trenton N, J. No. 7 EAST GAY Stroot, West Chester, Pa. oc7-tD26. HARRIS 38 BOUDOIR SEWING MA CHINE is offered to the public as the moat rolia ble low-priced Sewing Machine in use. It will sew from •lx to sixty stitches to an inoh, on all kluds of goods, from coarsest bagging to the finest cambrics. It le, without exception, the simplest in its mechanical con struction ever made, and can ho ran and kept in order by a child of twelve years of age. The durability of this machine, and the quality OF its work, are war ranted to be unsurpassed by any other. Its speed ranges from thred'handred to fifteen hundred stitches per infa nte. The thread used Is taken directly from the spools, WITHOUT FBI TROUBLE Or BBWISDIITO. In fact, ft IS • machine that is wanted by every family in the land, and low price of FORTY DOLLARS, at whiob they sold, brings them within the reach of almost every one 8. D. BAKER, Agont, jelo*J6m wky eowfim 30 South EIGHTH Btreet. tv— a* Female Medical College... The Ninth jJJj Annnal Oomseof LEOTUREBwiUbeglnthel6th of Ootober, and continue five months. For terms. Ac., apply at the College, 627 ARCH Street, or by letter to the Dean. EDWIN FUaBELL, M. D. sefiO 12t PORK.— J 50 bbls Mess Pork, for sale by 0.0. SADLER A 00., se2s Street, 24 door above Frost. The result of the two groat Trade Book Bales, in this oity and In Now York, justifies all that we lately said about the Improved condition of the publishing business in thlscountry. At New York, the trade-sale renlizod about $150,000, and in this city, after that groat harvest, books to the amount of $lOO,OOO wore dtapoiod of In ilko manner. This activity has given a great impetus to tho business, and tho leading publishers, hero and elsewhere, are busy in bringing out new works some of them of groat impottanoo We bog “to report progress.” Childs and Peterson, of this oity, are so ad- vanced with the Crltioal Dictionary of English Litoraturo. and British and AiUoricnn authors, living and dead, from the earliest accounts to the middle of the nineteenth century, that thoy will certainly be able to publish It before the end of iB5B. It will consist of two volumes, eaoh of 1,000 pages, super-royal Bvo. The first volume will contain from A to J, inolusivo. This is a bibliographical, ns well as a biographioal diction ary, and therein resonfbles no book yet pub lished. It will contain from 30.000 to 40,000 biographies of authors, with almost innumerable notices of their works. Mr. 8. Austin AlHbone, who has devoted yoar3 to tho execution of this, w6rk', and WbroedifehaffbetSh l^9 *n preparing for It, has peculiar qualifications—as a fine crltio o’ clear writer,' a well-read scholar, and a hard- working manof letters. It is |ho oninion'.ef Mr. Trubnor, tho eminont and learned bibliopole; (and editor of “Ludewig’s Literature of American Abo- riginal Languages,”) that, with ono exception In Germany, there Is not so coinploto a collection of bibliographical works in tho world ab. Mr. Alii bono’s. It is far more completo and extondod than that of the British Museum. Tho publishers will bavo invested over $40,000, in one way or another, upon Mr. AlUfeone’s great book, by tho time the first Volume meets tho pnblio eyo. The European sale will probably be os large os tho Amerioan. It is a work wbioh will be necessary to all who read, and indispensable to those who write. Turning to New York, we poiceivo great activi- ty among the publishers thero. The Harpers have several books nearly ready inotpding tbo oonoludrng volumes of Dr. Barth’s Travels in Africa; Carlyle’s History of Frederick the Great of Prussia; Park Godwin's History of Franco; Abbott’s History of the Fronoh Revolu tion/; Page’s Narrative of the Four Years’ Expe dition toExploro the River La Plata'and Adjacent Countries; the closing volume of Copland’s Modi* oftl Dictionary; Henry St. John, Gentleman, a novel of John Eston Cooke, of Virginia; and the now Tolumo of Miss Strickland’s Quoons of Soot land. The Applotona are getting on very promisingly with their new Amerioan Cyclopaedia, of whioh the fourth Volume will soon appeal. This will be the most complete dictionary of goneral knowledge ever published in tho English language, superior, as a work of reforenoo.to the Enoyoloprodia Britan nica. Every article, large or small, is original. Mr. Scribner, of New York, associating with him Mr. Charles Wolford, (whose knowledge of foreign bibliography is superior, perhaps, to that of any other Amorican publisher,) is building up a large English-books* business, in conjunction with their American. One good point wo notice in their ad vertisements—they put imported books at the lowest paying rates, and in eaoh announcement of a work, mention the prioo at wbioh they send it free by post. Scribner A Co. have just published a very readable volume, by Miss Anna C. Johnson, called Peasant Life in Germany. Tho authoress has travelled extensively through tho coun try she describes, and hns obsorved much. It may bo objooted, however, that she reports too un favorably, on hearsay alone, of the morality of the falx sex In Germany. BUBETINQB, PATBNT LEATHEE, Stanford and Dollsser, who have lately en tered largely into competition with their New York brethren, announce Skotcbcs of Lifo and Landscape by our cxoollent and gifted friend the itev, Ralph Hoyt, Michelet’s Life of Joan of Are (being rol. i of the Household Library), Gni lofc’e Peta3?al Memoirs, and other works* original .and selected. They hare just published two now works of fiction : Ernestine; or, The Heart’s Longings, by Aleth, and Brandon ; or, A Hundred Years Ago, by Osmond Tiffany. Tho first of these, evidently written by a porson wall acquainted with European countries and sooioty, is a romarka ble book, containing much ©ut of tho common track, with tho morit of being eloquent and ear nest.. tt is a psychological romance, olevnted in tone, and full of interest. Brandon is a novel of American lifo in by-gono years, with a numbor f of historical ohuraotors, including Wolfo, in his warrior-glory at Quobco, and Patrick Henry eto he omerged from obscurity Th “ " ~ o soene fiitsfrom Now England to tbo Old Domi nion. The description of Nowport, acontury ago, is oapitally executed. In truth, Brnndon is a fas cinating romance, and we care not how soon again we moot its acoomplishod author. W. A Townsend has published tn two volumes Bvo., a splondid edition, finely illustratod, of Frank Forester’s F eld Sports of Amerioa This work had received the author’s final oorreotions just be fore he committed Buicide, last May. “Frank Fo rester,” as our readers know, was tho nomde plunte of tbo latti Henry W. Herbert, whoso bio graphy suitably prefaces this fine edition of the work by which ho was best known. The work is onriohed with a photograph portrait of Herbert, and a photographic view of his rosidonco, tho Ce dars,'nearNewark,N. J. This now edition also con tains numerous other engravings from tbo author’s deiigns. Its high value has been fully estimated by tho best sportsmen in America and England. J. S. Rcdficld'a illustratod edition of Foe’s poems, most luxuriantly got up as a first-olass gift book, is said to bo selling largely all over the country. Tho bo3i artists in Amerioa and Eng* land havo united to make it a pictorial ns well as a poetical bijou. Tho nblo memoir of Poo is from the pen, Wobolievo, of Mr. Charles F. Briggs, of the Now York i>aiby Times. Thoro are isolated books promised or brought out by other Now York publishers not sufficiently important to be mentioned in this glance at what is doing, and what has been lately done, in the way of now books, boro and in other cities. At Boston we find considerable activity. Littlo, Brown A Co., whoso edition ot tho British poets, edited by Professor Child, of Cambridge, is at otco the cboopost, as welt os the most hand some and complete, evor issued, are Constant ly adding first-olnss works to our legal literature. Thoy have just brought out tho sixteonth volume of the new edition of the Enoyolopredoa Britannicn. AVe have only Boon the lißt of its principal con tents, which is highly attractive. In general lite rature, their latest issue is part of a now library edition of Bhakspoaro, to bo oomplotod in twolve Volumes. Riohnrd Grant White (author of an Bvo, called Sbakspoaro’s Scholar, published about three years ago by Appleton’s of Now York) ia the editor, and as far as can bo predicated from such of his labors as have appeared, he is oxeouting his genial task very conscientiously as well «s very ably. Tho oorne dies have already appeared, most exquisitely printed and otherwise got up, and tho whole work, of whioh the twolfth and last volumo will contain an original llfo of Shakspearo, is so far advanced that it will bo wholly before tho publio b-foro the close of 1859, if not cnrlior. Tho great moritsof Mr. White are, first, that ho thoroughly under stands hU subject l noxfc, that his heart Is In the doiDg It nmplo justioe ; then, that ho avoids over loading his author with commentaries; and, lastly, that ho is amiably tolerant of all preced log editors. Not only is Mr. White very shrewd and sensible, but his tomporauiont is sufficiently pootioal to tnako bis work on Shaks* pearo litorally a labor of leva Wo notice that in a noto on Midsummer-Night’s Droam, ho says that until after Shakspearo wrote that piny Puok was a generic name for a minor order of spirits, and hla contemporaries spoiled it oithor potato, pooto, or povto. Not having had the ad vantage of being an Irishman, (whioh is his mis fortune, not his fault,) Mr. White doos not know, we suppose, that, to this day, in the fairy lore of Iroland, the most mischievous of all tho spirits— except the ardent spirit called Pothoon—is tho Poo/cka. Crofton Croker’s Fairy Legonds and Thomas Kelghtley’s Fairy Mythology amusingly describe the feats, freaks, and frolios of this imp. As Mr. White remarks, Shakspearo modified the character of Puok when he identified him with llobtn Goodfellow. W e believo that White’s Shak speaTe will bo not only tho most beautiful of all editions of the Immortal Swan of Avon, but also tho most faithful and satisfactory. Tioknor & Fields, of Boston, are preparing for tho Fall season. Longfellow’s new poom, Tho Courtship of Miles Standish, will bo published in thooourse of this week. It is in the metro of Evangeline—that motro whioh Southoy so much loved, and the subject is one whioh will proba bly make it even yet more popular than that ex quisite Tale of Aoadie. The world of letters will not forget, what the author himself has gratefully declared, that, but for the diligenoe and seal ufcd by Mr JamesT. Fields, himself a ohormlng writer, in oolleoting his scattered writings, Do Quincy’s A dmirable works would never have been brought MONDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1858. What our Publishers are Doing* out, in any complete and satisfactory manner. Tioknor & Fields have issued about twenty volumes of Thomas Do Quincy’s writings, Allowing the author to participate in tho profits. They have just issued two popular works—George Augustus Bala’s Journey due North, and the Rev. Charles Kiogsley’s Sir "Walter Raleigh and his Time, with othor papers. Mr. Sala was a leading writer for a considerable time, in Household Words, in wbioh periodical appeared some portion of bis Journey to and bis Tour in Russia, performed in 1856. Mr. Sala has a very Diokons- Isb way of writing—he is usually smart, occasion ally witty, and always amusing. He has no very great liking for'Russia, bnt ho describes, very spiritedly, wbafc he noticed there, and tho result is a vory readable, and even sooiable book. The new volume of Kingsloy’s consists of Miscellaneous artiolos whioh appeared in the North British Re view and in Fraser's Magazitie, with a Leoture whioh was delivered at Edinburgh. A noblo life of Raleigh at onoe opens and nom«B the volume, but, to our taste, the papers upon North Devon aro tho gems of the book. They oontain writing whioh is like painting, so vividly does it bring men and plaoes, and things before tho mind’s eye. Seldom have wo road any pages more oloquent, and yet so entirely unambitious. The book is got up in hand some library form. Noticing what Tioknor & Fields have done and are doing, let us add that their Household Edition of the Waveriey Novels rapidly approaches to a dose. It is beautifully printed, as well as hand somoly illustrated with engravings after original designs by Barley, Faed, Mclan, Franklin, Bil lings, Elmore, WandrFrank Stone, Blokes, Drum mond, Frith, Molville, Birkett Foster, Egg, J. Hayter, Soloraan, Cope, Howard, Taylor, De Guimond, John Gilbert, and others. Tho entire of Soott’s wonderful fictions havo thus boen pub lished, at 75 coats a volume, except Woodstock, Tho Fair Maid of Forth, Anne of Geeirstein, Count Robert of Paris, The Surgeon’s Daughter, and Costlo Dangerous This is tho neatest and most portablo edition over published. The last volumes contain, with minor stories, tho ro mance of The Talisman, in whioh Soott again brought 'into tho arena Richard Cocur de Lion, the roal hero of Ivanhoo. A melancholy interest attaches to romanoe, in whioh Saladin'and Richard figure side by side. It was the ver£ last work whioh Scott threw off, from a free mind, ore tho oommeroial oriels of 1825 re duced bim to comparative poverty. It was the last flash of genius, ere it became harnessed to write merely to eoneel debts. At the time he wrote it, Bcott was only 54 years old. Seven years later and the mind whioh croated and tbo hand whioh 1 wrote wore no more. Phillips, Sampson, A Co., publishers of the At lantic Monthly, have nearly ready, as a reprint, in book-form from thatMagazine,Dr O. W. Holmes’s Autocrat of tho Breakfast Table. What a world wide popularity that book will have 1 For, the Autoorat is as genial and gentle, and, withal, as philosophical, an oesayist as any of modern times. Ilnzlitt, saturnino and oynioal, would yet have loved this writer. Charles Lamb would havo opened his heart to ono who resembles him so much in many excellent points. Leigh Hunt, we dare say, has been muoh delighted with him Thomas Hood, the great humanitarian, would havo rolishod hU fine catholic Bplrlt. Dickens, no doubt, h&B read him more than once, admiring Ms command of our common language—tho “ well of English nHdcfiled”—-and, above all, the perva ding (ono of practical philosophy. The Autocrat, however, is somewhat more than an essayist—ho is contemplative, discurelvo, pooticcl, thoughtful, philosophical, amusing, imaginative, tender— never didactic. This is the acorcfrof his marked success—ho interests variously-constituted minds and various moods of mind. It neoded not the introduction of lyrical pieces (whioh we aro glad to have) to show that tho Autoorat is essentially a poet. Of all who would have most enjoyed him we may foremost name Professor Wilson, who would have welcomed him to a seat ‘‘above tbo salt” at tho far-famed “Nootos Ambrosian®,” placing him next to William Mogion, the wayward “ O'Doherty” of Blackwood's Magazine. Publications Received. Pnsohall’s Pilgrimage, a philosophical poem, in threo cantos, exemplifying tho Ups and Downs of Life. 12mo. Philadelphia. (Good sense, keen satire, a somewhat rough versification, and not a little ccoentrioity, form tho constituent parts of this brochure.] Gillian: and other Poems. By George M. Ry der. 12aio. Philadelphia. fA liFe-story, well told in verso. Somo of the minor pieces are above p»r ] Theduvenile Speller. By W. W. Smith. 12mo. New York : A. 0. Barnes k Co. [the design of this school-book is to aollect the diffloalties of Eng lish spelling, so arranged that ordinary application on the part of a child oan master them. Thore also are lessons in orthography and spelling, with the meanings of words dearly sot forth ] Tho Julia. By tho author of “Vara,” 12roo. New York: Carters. [A moral sea-novel, the story of which is interesting.) Memoir of Rev. David Toppan Btoddart, Mis sionary to tho Nestoriami. By Joseph 11. Thomp son, D. D. 12wo Now York : Sholdon, Blako tuan, A Co. (A satisfactory biography of a good and gifted man, la whioh his own correspondence is largely drawn upon.] Epitome of the Amorifnn Eiioctio Practioo of Medicine. By William Paino, M. D. Philadel phia. [Tho uamo of this volumo very prooiseiy indicates its purpose. On the Eoloctio practice of Medicine, Dr. Paioe is full and explicit, and on Allopathy, Homeopathy, and Hydropathy, ho is extrewolyfair, always quoting the ipstssima verba of enoh author.) Historical Magazine, October, 1858. New York: G. B. Richardson. [This periodical, a ourious col lection of information worth preserving, is the “Notes and Queries”of Amorioa.J Ecleotio Magaziuo of Foreign Literature,--New Fork. Rccoived from W. B. Ziober, Philadelphia [A very good portrait of Washington Irving em. bellishes this number, and Proscott, the historian, will (most Sarlain- ly) ho tho subjoot for next month. Tho “Eoleotio” seems to be making a now path for itself, by chiefly drawing upon the foreign monthly magazines, instead of on tho quar terlies, which aro so well known hero through L. Scott & Co.’a widely circulated ropriat.) The Supreme Court—The Legality of the Act selling the State Canals* (Correspondence of The Press.l StmutrnY, October 7,1858. The hum-drum of our ancient villago is more than usually stirred by tho presenoo of lawyers and judges attending upon tho sessions of the Su preme Court. There is a full bench present, but this being the Northern distriot of Pennsylvania, the cases to ho tried are few in number, and the sittings will not be prolonged boyond Thursday, or Friday at furthest. Tho only causo argued, of publio importanoo, i 3 that testing tho constitutionality of the act for the sale of tho State Canals. Tho caso was brought before tho oourt in this manner : When the Canal Commissioners gravely rosolved that tho aot was unconstitutional, Air. Lowis Coop or, a subscriber to the stock of tho Delaware Canal Company, under the rc-sale of that improvement by the Sunbury and Erie Railroad Company, got roared, and refused to pay up his subscriptions. The Sunbury and Erie Compony therefore sued him, and he filed, as an answer, that tho act au thorizing the salo to the aforenamod corporation was illegal, and consequently they could not give a good title. He was joined in tho suit by the Canal Commissioners. W. L. Hirst, Efq., and Hon. J. S. Blaok, acting as counsel for tho defence- Hon. John C. Knox, Charles Gibbons, E-*q., and St. George T. Campbell, appeared for tho com pany. Air. Gibbons opened for tho company in nn elo quent and convincing argmnont. Ho answered seriatim the points that were Taised in the paper book of the defenco Hon. J.. S Black appeared by proxy. His spoeoh was read by Col. A. B. McCalmont. It was an extraordinary document for a Supremo Court argument; condemning the sale as no salo at all, hut a gift.; declaring tho Sunbury and Brio Company an insolvent corpora tion ; and broadly Insinuating that the Pennsylva nia Legislature was a very oorrupt body. Chief Justice Lowry intimated, after the document had been road, thatit would not have been heard if the whole contents had bcon known ; and Attorney Gonoral Knox said ho had known lawyers heavily fiued for indulgingin loss of personalities and abuse of a co-ordinate branch of Government. Mr. Illrat, his colleague, however, made the argument on that side of the quoßtion, whioh was a truly in genious and dispassionate effort, without any of the vituperation and abusive epitheta that were con tained in every paragraph ard almost every line of Judgo Black’s harangue. Ho maintained— First. That the'act for tho sale of the State canals was in effoot a pledge of the credit of the Commonwealth to a corporation, and therefore in violation of the fifth seotion of nrticlo eleventh, being tbo amendment adoptod in 1857. Second. That tho proceeds of the sale aro not applied to the sinking fund nooording to the truo construction of tho 4th section of same amend ments, and in violation thereof.. Third That tho aot, by its provisions, in fringes upon the rights and powers of the Exeou tlvo Departments cf the Government, and ia there fore void. Fourth. That tho provisions of the aot are not TWO CEINTS. such as to Justify the court in treating the disposi tion of tho canals as a sale of the property pledged to the loanholders of the Commonwealth, under the 4th section of the same amendments, and that the act takes from them their seourity, in violation of that section, and impairs their oontraot, in violation of the Constitut.oa of the United States. These points were elaborated at some length, and wore repliod toby Hon. John O. Knox, in one of the dearest expositions of the true intent and meaning of tho Constitution, touching the points atiaano, that were over heard in our court of last resort. He contended— First. That the Commonwealth owned the ca nals. and notwithstanding tho pledge to the loan holders, they may be sold by law; for the sovereign ty of Pennsylvania would indeed be an empty name if she was bound to keep theseimprovements for all time for the purpose of paying over their revenue to the creditors of the State as interest money. It was so settled by the unanimous opinion of the court in Mott vs. Pennsylvania Railroad Co. Indeed, she had given away the Upper North Branch at one time, the Erie Extension and the Wieconieoo Feeder; and surely if she could bestow them sho oould soil them. The Commonwealth buys nothing, endorses nothing, guaranties noth ing, assumes nothing, contracts for nothing, and therefore it is not peroeived that in any form her credit has boen pledged, and is neither a ioinf owner nor a stockholder in a corporation. Second. That nothing is pledged, directly or in directly, to theloan-helderB of the Commonwealth, but “the proceeds of tho sale.” The objection that because 25 per cent, of the “ re-sale” Unot paid into the sinking fund but reserved as a com mission by the company, was ruled out by the court. Third. It does not infringe upon the rights and powers of the executive departments of Govern ment, beoause the Governor Bigned the'bill, exe cuted the deeds, reoeivod tho bond and mortgage for the purohase money, ratified every resale, issued letters patent to tho new purchasers, accepted their bonds, cancelled the old obligations, and has folly, and minutely, and without hesitation, carried Wt the law, without, it is presumed, having as yet conceived that any of his constitutional rights have been invaded. Fourth. The public creditor Has no suoh Interest as will entitle him to interpose to prevent any disposition of the publio property that the pro. per department of the Government might see fit to make. No property is taken from them ; all that is reoeivod from the sale still remains for them. Even if it be a contract , their secu rity is in no legal sense impaired by the sub stitution of the proceeds of the thing itself. This is a mere skeleton of the Attorney Gene ral’s very able argument.' He has a commanding presonoe, an impressive manner, and a clear in tonation of voice, that add muoh to hissucoessas a lawyer. It was the first time your correspondent had heard Judge Knox in forensic effort, and the remarks of the legal gentlemen present only serve to convince him that Gov. Packer could not have made & better selection among all her gifted sons for the important post of Attorney General. Tho opinion of the oourt will he delivered in the course of a week. It is eonjeotured here by all men that it will be unanimous, and confirm the sale as valid. ; Politics are very quiet here. Dewart has no chance of a re-election. There is a fight among tho Democrats in this distriot that will result In the election of an opposition Senator., The district is composed of Columbia, Northum berland, Union/ and Snyder—a Mr. Follmer, of Milton, having the conferees from the two first counties, and a Mr. Keller, of Snyder, the f)ro last. After one hundred and fifty ineffectual ballots, tbe friends of each have.determined lie shall run; so there will be twoJUohmonds in the field. NORTBUXBBBLANDi GF’The following lines, which possess great merit, are from the pen of a young man not nine teen years old: j [Por The Preaa.l Ode to Man* BT JOHN BUNTIXCf. Dost tbou call Earth fair ? Go sak the million slaves that crowd the mines, • -«• And wear themselves array In endless toll: ! Tor them no morn awakes, no glory ehtnes; Their day is night—their fieri tags the roll. I Go, ask tbe wanderer, who begs his bread ‘ From door to door, across a barren'land, Ts there no heart where kindness It not dead* . ..! No heart to cherish, and no saying hand; < No heart, where charity hath not died, • No heart where lore is not a Velflah thought I'' Ask these—whose lives, whose hopes are crucified; Ask those! will they not speak as they are taught? Will they not answer, from tho eaves of care, It were a mockery for the tongue to dare * To call this bleak earthfalr? Dost thon call this Life sweet? Qaestion the stricken heart, and shattered frame, Whose shipwrecked vessel has been stranded long, Whore sou of reason Is a maniac flame That leaps and glares, and yet is never strong. Question the bearer of the heavy b-orr, The bearer of r. weight upon the heart, As of the breast that throbs so wildly now, Ask if its tendrils from the soul would part; Go ark of these, if this most mournful spaa Is a sweet boon—a heritage of Heaven— A priceless gift—a blessing sent to man— A crown of glory to God’s children given ? And though the answer breathes but lo a tigh, See If these quivering tones, before they die, Will not leap up and trample with their feet The toogues that call life sweet Dost thou call Love divine ? Go ask of him whoseheartls crashed and torn, Whose soul is bowed with the tremendous woe Which notes a love that died as soon as bora, Centred on things that are too high or low. Yea, all of lave divine has died with her— When ehe departed, passion sank to sleep; Ft seemed that truth and virtue never were — The world seemed dark, the anguish was so deep i Yes, ask of him! the brow may not be dark; The smile may light the features like the dawn j But place thyself beside his breast and mark The throbs that tell how life and hope are gone. Ob, ask of him ! though high his mind is borne, The soul is grovelling, and the heart is chained; The fragments of it, link from link are torn— Tho wreck of what urns mighty when it reigned. Child of an unknown Father ! seek the shrine Of some dofld Love, and measure it with tblne. And blast that image which thou deem’at divine ! Dost thou call Flowers sweet ? Go to the graves that hold the silent dead— They who were once thy friends In happier years, For whose Sweet memory long thy bosom bled, For whose sad loss thou shed those bitter tears, And watch the dowers that mantle those green mounds With a resplendency as cold as death. ' There are no songsterA here with gentle sounds ; ■"> The world is of the dead-winds have no breath. The flowers have fixed their feet upon the breasts Of those who loved thee—thence their beauty comes; The blush that lights the blossoming of their crests Is stolen from that dead cheek which no more blooms. 0, gate at these ! do not the colors fade f Are not the perfumes now forever flown ? The gerai have turned to an eternal shade; The pilfering blossoms on the winds are strewn. Deem not tho buds that thy affections greet— The flowers that thou should’st trample ’neath thy foot— Dsem not that such dishonored things are sweet! Thus falsely speak thy dreams. 0 child or fate ! But still* how art thou blessed! When the clouds draw their curtains round thy sky, And the sun stoops behind the rosy west, And the last purple shadows round him lie} When all this world, the bitter and the dear, The Earth, the Life , theious. the Flotcsrs are gone, Forth from the glory of a realm so drear Wakens the orient of eternal dawn. Though thou hast questioned all the things of Time, And feared to place in earthly powers thy trust, Thou eaostnot doubt the wSalth of realms sublime, Thou eaost not doubt thy Father’s will is just; And however dark thy future seems, 0 pause until thy eye shall oatch the gleams Of a fair life beyond this dream of dreams. Such, creature! is thy fato! So live, that when thy hostelry is o’er— Tbla link between two worlds is hurst in twain— T by unwieathed soul may reach that distant shore, And take the crown of an eternal relm, And, floatiug down that loog and waveless stream, Not shall the slightest memory cling to thee Of this strange lire, which is but as a dream, Whose memory fades and sets thy spirit free. Cling not to Earth! There is no spot below, No wave that swells, no wind that whispers near, Nothing of Earth that’s not wrapped in woe— No heart of man that hath net shed a tear. Then chain thyself submissive to thy fate ■ The dawn will waken ere the night grows late, And Heaven’s long morning sun-beam lift the pearly gate. From Westmorelaud Couuty. [Correspondence of The Press.] Gbeensduro, Pa., Oofc. 6,1858. You oan roly upon a good return from this county next Tuesday. As in the other portions of the State, thoro is no excitement or feeling except in regard to the oandidate for Congress. In this distriot wo have on one side that noble fellow and able statesman, Hon. H. D. Foster, who formerly represented us in Congress. Of oonrse, ho is a sound Domoorat, and when I say that I moan that he isantl-Lecompton. Judgo Deuglas is almost idolized by the people in this seotion, and the hostility of the Genorftl Administration towards him and hla friends only serves to entwine the arms of the truo Democrats the more oloßoly about him. Not “Occasional.” Shoot Fire.—About one o clock afternoon, in .l.rm of burning or a dwelling house in Fltler etreet, in the Nine teeoth word. The damage was trifling. resources of the surrounding conn toy, the increase of population, or any information that will he interest' g to tote general reader. GENERAL NEWS. Three Men Suejodatkd in a Well. —fn* formation was brought to the city yesterday event ing, that three men bad been euffoo&ted in a well, by poisonous gas, at Willow Spring Station, on tho Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, about ten miles from town. Their names we did not learn- It ap pears that the well needed cleaning, and one mail was let down in a buoket by means of a windlo® for the purpose. Before the bucket 'rcaohed tho bottom the man fell out. Supposing it to be tho consequence of accident, and that the was hurt by the fall, the backet was drawn up and a second man was let down to assist the first. This man fell senseless out of the bHoket, as did tho first. The people above them concluded very right ly that tbe well was filled with carbonic gas In order to decide the point, however, a third man got into the buoket and direoted his comrades to lower bim slowly into the well that be could smell, and if he discovered there was foul air, he wonld give a signal and they could draw him up. Be was let down, but gave no signal, and on reaching th .® point where the others had fallen out. he like lii the buoket to the bottom. Of oourse, all three expired, and the people not knowing how e expel the gas, were unable to recover their bo ttles —Chicago Times. Alleged jcltH/Ment op two Dreams.—A a° r i»wJ mvi? n * °f Missouri Republican relates of «» alleged fulfilment of i;n. n L A l !' K ~7i oE thi “ °W, about a year “®d a dream that there was a spring near Alton, or Altono, in XUmolj, that would oure him L. . § diaeafK> w >th whioh he had been afflioted for fire years. On the morning after tho dream Mr. E ’a wife told him ehe was muoh troubled at not reoolleotin* something that sho had dreamed would oure hfe. Shook with this °S in J. ? no ?> **“ wrot ® lo tie postmaster of Alton, of which place he had not heard before, to mak© inquiries Into tbe matter, and the result was ho learned that there was such a spring, on the farm of Major at a place once called Altona, and Jong known for the virtues of its mineral waters. Thither the invalid went, and by a judicious use of tho waters, diet, and exercise, he improved so ra pidly in health that in the oourse of five weeks he could walk ten miles, and he was speedily restored to a state of robnst health. A Precocious Forger and Mail Rob- SBR-—"A few days since the postmaster of New Orleans arrested Miobael Herts, a lad of sixteen, in the aot of signing a receipt for a valuable let ter, addressed to John McMurdo, of that oity. Several valuable letters have been mysteriously taken from the post office since last May, and the police have been on the watch for tike abstractor for some time. Receipts for most of these have been given in this hoy’s band writing, and he has even forged endorsements of checks anAdrafta enoloeed in these letters, mid 'got them-cashed at the oity banks. How the bank officers, oould be deceived by hie bungling forgeries isa matter of wonder to everybody. Oa oreaking open the boy’s trunk, at his father’s boose, -a pocket-book found containing $165 and two notes for $lO,OOO, drawn by a merchant of Centreville, La., for acceptance on a firm in New Orleans, due Ist Match, 1859. He was committed for trial. Singular Accident. —The Hartford Press gives tbe following aooount of a singular accident which occurred at Woloottville, Conn., during a wicket match between'Winsted and Woleottvme players: .. , * Mr- Jabez Alvord had buckled a strap tightly around his right-arm above tbe elbow, to prevent bis arm from .being lamed when throwing In the ball. Soon a large throw became, necessary, but as the effort was made, a crack, short and distinct like that of a pistol, was heard aeross the play ground, and the young man’s arm fell powerless at his side, the ball describing a short curve be yond. Oa an' Immediate examination'of the arm >y Doctors Phelps and Steele, -who were upon the ground, it was found that the bone was broken short off* just above the point where *the strap wa » placed. “Players will understand that nature rebels against any artificial supports of the kind used by Mr. Alvord.” Bartering Squaws.— A correspondent of one of our exchanges is responsible for this item: ” At Harmony, some forty miles from Washington, the Piede Abram, having a squaw who signified her wish to have a younger husband, marched her before the muscle of his rifle to Cedar, where Uteswere quartered, haring come here for the purpose of buying squaws for tbe United States troops, and sold her to them; so she had a fair prospect of having her desires more than gratified. A few days since a noise of crying was heard in, the streets., I went out and saw an Indian drag ging along his squaw,' while she was howling bit terly. , Upon asking what was the cause he re plied, ‘Kots ashinti miV-she don’t want me; baring also conceived a desire for another bns band, and probably she may be likewise accom modated.” Sxxgblak Devexopmiht. —A. gentleman from Virginia, brings with him a child, seven Tears of,age, whose growth, and appearance pro* sent a most .wonderful degree of early develop ment. ■ His name is Walter W. Bryant, and no was born inßlchmoDd Virginia:' Et» weighs ninety'pounds, and,is forty-fanXj inches htpr''His'laoe Ts'afl large as that of a full-, grown man, and bis health exceedingly robust. He measures round. the breast 35{ inches; around the waist 37i inches, *'arm 15, and leg 18 inches round. His parents are of the ordinary rise, and no reasons have been assigned by physicians for the singular and extraordinary early develop ment of nearly mature powers in one so very young. Death of a Ruffian. —A notorious Indi vidual, Colm Le Blew, who had long been the ’error of St.. Landry and Caloasieu, Miss., was killed recently at the latter place As he was sp proaohing the hotel four heavily loaded guns were discharged at him, lodging forty or fifty buckshot in his body. Three yonng men were arrested for the deed, but subsequently released, the deed having been done by the general sanation of the community. Le Blew, on one occasion, forbid the judge to hold court in Caloasieu, and actually, by pointing a pistol at him, made him leave the benoh. A Chicago paper publishes a ''calculation** concerning Thurston the aeronaut's fall. His ele vation was thought to be three miles when he was last seen, and assuming this to be the distance he fell, it would only require thirty-one seconds and a half for him to reaoh the earth, a moan veloeity of 495 feet per second. Assuming his weight to be 160 pounds, he would strike the earth with a momentum equal to 160,800 pounds, or little more than 80 tons, a power sufficient to shatter his body, bone and musole, into atoms so minute as scarcely to bo perceptible, if not to bnry him deep into the earth. Railroad Accident.—A yonng man named Sheridan left Pittsburgh on Wednesday last in one of the way trains, and got off at Brlnton’s station. In endeavoring to get on a train ooming back, it is supposed that he fell under the oars. He was found lying on the rail at evening, in a horribly mntilated condition, and brought back to tho oity. He was taken to Dr. Walter’s Hos pital. It is said, on what evidence we are not informed, that Sheridan was under the in fluence of liquor when this sad aeoident oc curred. Jewish Longevity.— The modern Israelites, we are informed by Herr Gaiters, have a longer life of it than modem Christians. During twenty three years M. Gatters has been gathering statis tics on this head in Wieselburg; and he finds that as infants, as as adults, Jews live longer than Christians. He attributes their longer life to some peculiarity of race; hut it is probable their money has something to do with it. A pauper Jew is an unheard-of thing, and poverty and short lite have a well-known relation. —Medical Times m Suicide. —A man named Willis M. Warner committed sniolde at the Menard Honse in tho town of Petersburg, 111., on the 23d ult, by taking twenty grains of morphine. Previous to retiring for tho night, he jokingly asked a companion if ho would have him deoeutly buried. He leaves a wife and one child living in Buffalo. He also had a brother in Chioago. In a letter that he left for his brother, occurs the following sentenoe: “For ever esobew the intoxicating cup.” Serious Accident. —On Tuesday night last a young Indy named Barberwas very seriously in jured, at Rondout, Pa., by being thrown down by a horse, as two men were raoing in the streets of that village. Two men rushed to her assistance, when one wag kicked upon the forehead, almost instantly killing him, while the other was seriously injured. Large Timber Contract. —The Lords of the'British Admiralty have contracted with a house in Quebec for forty-five million feet of Bhip timber, of whiQh five million feet of live oak are included, ta he delivered within two years from next Novem ber, at ber Majesty’s dook yards at Sherness, Woolwich, ani Plymouth. A meric as-born Camels. —Forty-nine of tbo camels belonging to the United States are now at) Camp© Verde, sixty miles from San Antonio. Only one of those imported has died, while ten have been added by birth. Thcseyoung Amerloan-bom camels thrive well, and promise to grow np equal In all respects to those imported. A Novel Contest. —At the Hillsborough county, N. H., agricultural fair, a novel and in teresting feature was a contest between seven brass h&ndß. The committee, composed of editors, gave tbo first premium, $3O, to the Manchester cornet band, the second, of $25, to the Nashua band, and smaller premiums to several others. Watson Lewis, the one of tho two brothers who sneoceded in marrying his master’s daughter after the elopement last wook, has been arrested in Cleveland, Ohio, for bigamy—it being alleged that ho haR a wife with better claims to the title than poor Miss Lloyd, residing In that oily g The Repairs of the City Hall, New York, will cost $40,000. The addition will be an extra story, with a dome and clock tower, running up to a height considerably loftier than the old improving, it is thought, the general arohiteoraral effect of the building. Death or a Prisoner.— Godfrey Piorca died in the hospital of thoßhode I.lanJl State ?r 8 n ’£ Wr in~ & “n,mi°t;ed A-17,1854, for killing » child by throwing it into the well Singular Oake.— A cake sent to Elridge, the St Lawrence county, Ohio, school teaoher who ornellT murdered his betrothed, was opened by the iailor and fonnd to contain a nioe now rotor. ’Speet tho fellow wonted a Bhave. The moat valuable span of horses In the United States are said to be owned by Commodore Vanderbilt of New York. They are matched horsos. They cost him 56,000, and he has been offered 99 000 for them. A Typographical Prodigt. —The editor of the Signal tells a Btory of a lad in that office that oan lc distribute” and 11 compose” 13,000 “ einr ’of “ bourgeois” in the recognised hours of a working day. Mr.D. H.Cutter, of Newhuryport, Maine, has tested the effect of girdling the grape-vines, and fiods that the grapes are much larger and sweeter on that account, and earlier.
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