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Oflldo, No. 417 Chostnut Streot.
. ...••< -r-, , -,*v-.'?
t il • ■■: MnnOnH to tisemlM*. -
,«?' M«n*4to Bolxoribori Olitdf ts*'cltroX BixSotLiU
v ?•» iim( ;»aoX;.Doi;uiliß' 100 'lrtm UonU|
Moant. InTarUMjUnl-
T»noo for tu* time prdortd. .. .; , ■ : ■ ;
4 ../'t,RI.WK*KiIf;PaK»». -■ -; I '/
Malledto Buiiedtiin out aftto Oltj «t TtIMMM Pot
- ;ilMM»iwiox,.laoaTOtMH., ; t.
: n " : ;; wkeiu,* skes#;,is-,; .' . :
In WWKZ.T Pk*rb will bo sent to Buboerlbora
null (par nmriro, In Klrino*,) at. .4... t* 5?
Throe Oopioo, ll . “ 500
FrtoOopoMi*4 11 r ..*..« 8 00
WnOopiM,. « ; . , ............. 12 00
■■ - Tweot/0opl»t, “ ' ; 1 »(tooh«aMrwa).....S!<! 90
Twenty (Jopiea, or orar, “ . (to addruat)f owk ; i
■ - - aolnioriber,) ea0i....;.-.i.V...........i...i.. 1 n
. lor • (Uob oflwenty-pao worer. wowUlMnd on
“; - estabopr th» jp*tfeer-ttp ottna Club. <■<_ - , ; > .
PoitiaWtora 'art'.rMtrtetad to Mt *a AfUta for
, ■•, '
iMoodißomt-Moatiilrlii'ttmo' for : ri««n»lifoVr.i.
v , Bto*m«r>._;-> «5. H t --• ' ] ’
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XITHOaBAPfIj '
BOOK,,
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• ’ Anl'for naloatMumtattitera 1 jrleea,. bj ; ' ,4
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' great rarletyof atyleMwt*!*®*, of tfcejaaUr celebrated 1
:
> - erer/ re«p*et-to" thWew' , 'Ydr* Par sue,
-Wfxde«alamdJletiUffc/:the ; PTibli4lreri^ v ' ' ‘•
cA BB9TOHft-:*40;, * I , .
«... ; ', : Coon ting Hoom BUtlonera, fe :
~ B°^thTdPßTg;fitroet; $.;
B~ ll'nK ACCOUNT subr
aaibtw .has, now oa. band.-* IwgtfAttortnient ttf
J Bl*ukAro«^tBoolw J gtwde.ofJjujl
i -l* 'VifrMitfka; -4- 1 • -.-'■ Letter -Bfelrg^- T: t • ’~-
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OUh ikftc** %^ 800k5.,,
‘ VOTSyPrtftaf&c.'' ’ -j
B l«ik
to,ojderj>t u4mffiaM.
for nMtnnroz roll* p; Quality of ttatarialii
\ and d w^biliif.'of; Mr dl n* ,<. /U * w sndold Armi aapplled
o*fa?6r*N* ttfmii- LITHOQKASHIO ASOXiKT CBS
PBBSH*BUjTJH&, Bill BMfli-GKdii'OiroaUrsjßldpr,
plDg and »ferr,de»criptionfl, or Job Pjrlntlit
oxoeated 1b fupariot’ afyU. ’ WmT‘M,OBRIBTT,
V-* r- v-"^ 1 :V. Stations? Ind Printer,' : ■
'it dM-Wwifita,,- & i. THIRDj opposite Girard Bask.::
BJU&XUt OOOIUS -IAWIi /STATIOKEJHr i
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- BtatCdw?wd J fitafir,UonO«:W*lSßs.Btrt«tri»*r»i
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<8 m»k»,£o,.of4«ißooki titmrj Jowrlpttom ttlUM*
- for BiaU.PoMilOßoWj of th*
: ,b«fiitqa*lUjof'Kngllj'.h pr.Ata*ricl«i P»prr,%ua bounl
‘ l» Trrioui *tyl»A io th* mo,t flut»Untl»fscunner.
: . 0S» for .JOB. PMNIrS& 'cfe«r«r*'i4*«rJptloi<
' Bsgr*riiz'«sa latbi«r*|>Ußs raratt«d wttk sttteNH
«aaa«p»BJSjf--. 7 -rs-s'‘i‘H " i
-' fWiti Ooimniftoe dUpl*T cff^slelik
boon for binxing.mi mercintU* bm U tteSwiia tkr
- BxhlWtinn. TheeelectimraftWmnUrinl Ir rood, tie.
tDattljeß, »; X
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, to tiiiiib r
NEW HA.BB Ii E B.U IX. DIN »,
No. 822 CHESTNUT STBEET,
OPPOSITE QtEARO HOUSE.
RMp»oUiilly InTUB thelr mutomen and tt* puMlu to
Lmjaotitielr n»ir Oood»,jcIp«l«d by on*jof th« 1m
noeailflaXanpoi'ooapdMhJg :; ;; '• ’ - ' ' s
ft v m bio ft ir ato ft es;
HIfI.H.JJS-'WBIiBT)
DIAMONDS AND FEARLB,
ATBBB9AH, PIORSNTINI), BOM AH, ABO
NEAPOLITAN " BETS,
BRONZE . CLOCKS,
'AND 'S'TA'giTETTBSi .
; BILTBB PiATED WABB,
WBDJDiNa STATIONARY, end
CARD ENGRAVING,
OPERA GLASSES,
- PANB AND-HAIB PINS,
ELEQANX NEWSIIfLE PAPIER MAO JIB,
dS-lm • '■ ' ' '
J E. OAIiDWELt i GO.,
». ‘ • MJ OHMIKBT :
. Hero receired,persteacaert,new ityle* -
Jewelrv, Chetalein*, Vert Ofcelae •
Splendid Yen*. Tleir Pin*.
Jfralt Bteadi, Bunr Bechet*.
Jet Good* *hd Ylower Veen*.
Bo!»J^«^In* I «U!rf«{lu*fot' tb*'**l* of bherle*
JrOisiiem’aLOHßOH.TtßE-KEEPEBgi. but 8
J> 8. JARDEM k 880. .
• «i»otio*«*» , E»"ijio'no6*»»»» or-.
‘• gILTEB-PIATED WARE, ,
Vo, ,Boi. Ckattami. Street/ TkiM» (wjtalrti)
,X ; fWltjtrichlfci-; ' ,■
’ ‘ '•. GoiwrUutly on sand and for ulti to the Trade. •
TEA- SETS, COMMUNION 8E&TIOS SETS, URNB
PITOHBRS* OOBLET8 L Om*Bj-WAITERS* BAS*
KETOJ OASTOBSi XNIVES/SPOONS, I OBKfl,
*lameß/Ad. ykb\ '"
plattngOft'airkitoagOf taetal.*.
gtmcaropea;
A for CM* by JAMSB WIOUEEN,
dU'. Hn.; ; -- Wt OHEBTBUT Street.
f»IHE .KARRIAOECEEEMONY 'IK THE
A StetwwojttJ'fwMle Sj. JAM&S W, QUEEN, -
4X4 •' . ' ; 824 CHESTNUT Street.
Cof)aleaolßjE)rg®qi3ibs.
TIBILX.S & SHBEWNGBFOREXFORT.
AArROWN, BIEAUHHD, t BMJE BMMiB. 1
-. HEAVy AtWOHT BHEBTINQB,
Suitable for Xfizport, for *ele br - -
■ *AOIHXNQHAM A WBIjLB,
24 South FRONT ST.-,’'f it LBTITIA ST.
‘ PHRENOLOGIOAIj EXAMIiTA
(KiKd.TIONS, with written do**Hptlon* of oheweter,
-ire- f ' including edrlee In reference to bnelnees, health,
/ VenlMnrOroTemeot, ere mode dev end eve- .
w 5. nlnvet fOWI.4a, WSLtB. A CO.’B,
liemlllee vletted when.wjneeted, end e llbereldie-':
ount mode to elub*. - >-f ~ r /-
exl-jhn re,'.' MSTffbnetontef- -PhtUdrißltle-
•f T ISvWOX A DTE I •
A ' JgRQMS’BHAIR' COLOR RESTORER trill re
etore flrey' Halrtdlleorirlnsl (Solor In from too to
twelve d»j«, end rvetoiti the Heir wnere It bee fellen off
end beoome thin. .. ■ ■ • : n’
■ ITISNOT A CT* 1
Itme/be need vefreelr ee water, endletlie meet been
ttfnl Ifreeeinv for lhe Heir now iu nee.
- Thoueeode in dlfferent perte of the Union here teetl--
Sed to Ite wonderfol virtue*, end ell who here need it
Joln ln theirpr«i«e or St. >-
SoM.Wholeeele nndßetell; tj Dr. BWATNB A SOS'
No, B‘NoxtS SEVENTH Stbeet.ebovo MARKS 11,I 1 , Soli
AgtnufotßHUMrttV <■ *• -If*.'-f .-•
Tired, eopplled : . . ; oeli-tin
TT XS OF THK; fIIOHESX IMPORTANCE
A fori ejretj one to know, where thej will get' the
- mbit fov thelr mfraeji eroeolelljr*Soh time* ee itheee,
ZIEOIiBB Ai SMlTH,.Wholßeeießrugglete, corner of -
BXOONOiend OIISSH Stteetapere dlepoilng of their-
VMHOmli Srqttnd-Pelnte.'of eUOolomj endWlndow
OliMWi ellof Om belt onellt]', et prloee which will be
1», jt.-U'y >ln- a . °° u
PHYBIOIAMS^Theebore
: 1 weed eurf9nee, the following: edfenti-''
(act
■ . oßjtrlth (dhitoeou theteM tol*-
1 . bZ4 in weter, hwoe aeUitetlng lneteAl of obetrnotin|
lect
YOL. 2—3VO, 129.
flKrg <®opbs.
r* RBAT SALE OF BEOOHE SHAWLS
UT ' -><’ AND CLOAKS!!)
r Unprecedented
2 We’ve hid e perfect routf! ,l
1 ■ We 7 re Beilina; to imraenelty of Goods 1
Oar trade’s iocrfc*iJrig J ' r ' '
OotMptfeof doing busweM seem* to meet with gene
ric approval ‘’Namely—. 1 .
* V‘* e» To But One Price.” ' ’
>'• 7 * rV.r-j it <p o b4hcheap for Cato.”
t ; -• « KeW to'misrepresent Goods in order •
- - - ' ‘ • ” TO BfrBCT BAMS.” 1 “
To deid fairly end justly, tod waltupon all euito-
JrieMwlthi attention end politeness.” ‘
V<*ThuS tojraln their confidence, end keep it by Con
tinning to doriffht ”
‘THORWLBY * OHIBM.
We hare now on bund , / , ..
• EieellentLong BroohS Shawls fcr $B. '
, Still, better quality for $lO, $11) $l2, $lB, sls, $l6,
$lB, $26, $22.. aod $26.. J ... , •..
Sqenre Brocho Shura froinss ap to $ll. -
■ Long and s4nireß)inkdt Shawls In erety wisty;
Ohffibren J *, ldli*«B; *oaflentlen.ea , il Shawls, obe. '
' GooJJßlMkOloth.Olosksfor f3. , ; ’
svery other qtfalityaridStyle for $8 opto $lB.
1 JOB LOS Of OtO'iSfBOM LABS SEASON AT‘
. a HA&fTBIOB! '*
Beit Black BUks for 60q. to ,91.60 per yard. , -
'■“'I 1 * - Rfoh'ftoeyJßflkritfMlj beautiful, '
Bvery’Variety of DRBBB GOODS. . ; •’
OLOTHB! 1 0ASSIBG8BE8! 1 ,BATTINBTTO,.&O.!!!
■ ‘Heavy Black Beater Clothe, fine french do., Sco., &o.
Blankets, flannels, Linens, and Muslins... : J -
-In fact rid‘ better Stock Of general Dry Goods can be
found thiri atl •
; .THORS'XiEY. . tiHIBM’S,
; Northeast CornerilGHTH * SPRING GARDEN.;
hbl£tf - '
iOHEAT BARGAINS INDBY GOODS.—'
UTh.-I-•
Hu REMOVED from N6;B®to No. 40 Sooth SECOND
Btreet.whereho u now prepared,tofurnishtho Lfciies
withafreahanlwllfSiestedßWckof'
GOODS,. . ” •
TiliiTitllYnill Ifiis Itffll sttsSHliPii. Tioi IU itatermlnnrl
toMUotMOMdiogtytowpSpa: j
- ■. tf.;.Bh-Arlarga.a»Sorlnisitt>of; : Broche, Stoll., and
Frenohj Biahksbrihlswlsi « Altai a witty of Silk and
Cloth.Circular!Constantlyon-hand,atthw
AM*** bu, I(ite3d«OIOA*s»MPOBIUM,” •.,
ooT-Sm No. 40 Sooth SECOND Strait;
fIHOIOK POODS for-tie HOLIDAYS.
T; k -itea-T *®* * ;
’■ .;. >a ,Miirohi*BS£ /
‘ '' iP iMii;ttOtX«tfir STREET,
. ■' ■ i
. A of- GoodsealteQ to'
the comtng-SOUDAsBt comprisfrig Articles of utility, ,
teste,'and ornament, selected from the latest importa
.tionsoxpreMly fornke Olty Betail Trade.
M. A Q.’s Stock embraoee erery variety of Bolls,
Wax, drying) and Bleeping, &o.; together with a large
variety of *?’. : t ??'
PAPBB DOLLB' WRITING DBSKB,
nt . r PORT.fOLIOS, HBRBARIUMBi •
j ;/' ' BOBAPBOOKSj PORT-MOKHAIBB, &o.
a iaiwojilfertment of Games, fancy Boxes,
nvSnfld' Bbc f anil tore, Theatres, Btablea.
■a 1 general assortment or Toy and'
- -' ■ 1 \ ’
t
.; Bai«;'BallSaajDd wickets. nolO^dl
' ' '
.. Bfling now now-location, ; - '
v- - No.)4fl)8!Sfl$BI;»«lBIir STREET,
: ■ aro - off.rinir i: : lil$Blllor'-'«Mortment of - <
'S’.-.oVwti.i' dedooiss^abmoms
‘•rtitazTf.il t- s^ha-
J > - -,7V > DANOI QOODB; '.
. Coniiattog In part of .; , - ... < - '
French' and Hogtlßh V ANOY BOAPB.' -
<■ . Foreign EXTBiCTB and FOMADES. .
TOILBTBOTTLKGyIn Glajlohd'Ohloa. '
FOBTEMONNAIBS.-FIIiUIS.UdfFOOKET.BOOKB>
‘- - DaESStNO OASES aodDDOB'BOXES. I
Bair,. Tootlii NaQ: *e„ fto.
To which th.ycali tke attention OfDmggf.u and tho
potjltc, M their prtcm datycompaUt-Cp. dlSdtlaT
* . -
THE UOLIdMS, ,
X l .;.* giIOIOJf.MIXJED'.SUCIAE PLUMS.
MABB.*ltl.*SjefpaAE ALMONDB,
.. . . JOEDAN STOAB ALMONDS.
• A TABISTY. OF OEBAM BONBONS,
t,.;. SDPEBIOR BDKNT ALMONDS.
lINE on OOOEATH V EBP-A RATIONS
•7' NESr VABIETY OF FINE CONFECTIONS.
* - t t. JJPANKS* sTrawbebmes:
labcs /Assortment of Isedsotbd french
- A VAEIETT OF fire fabis. boxeb
>,Ct i 1 -‘ " ‘’‘-■-A S jj. '• ‘ ’
.. . ; . O.ORN ETB .‘ - ' / .
FSENOHBCQARTOYB AND FRENCH NIORNAOKB;
, BTEPHEB ’ *-... W H’j T M A.N .
' AiANDFAOTIIREB.OF 'FlifE CONFECTIONERY. !
»,.y„). -Afa/mo MARKS! BTRSBT.
«n-U*W TWELFTH street.', j
and iiß miriutwtnrirtg a superior article of Marsh Hel
lo ir Gain Drope.lionßone, Cream Data*, Ac. Call,
'and ■appiy.ronreelVdd with.the beet Oooreetfonery in;
thtecltjr.at . JRPPRIEB& BVANS', \
: ' nolMm" UARMr Bt., bet. 7th and Bth. )
; ambmias."
IJMBEELLAS
CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.
WILLIAM A. DROWN A 00.,
MO MARKET STREET,
HOW BEADY'THEIR-USUAL LARGE ABBOBT
MBNX OP HANDSOMELY FINISHED
SILK UMBRELLAS.
. To wbloh they lnVite the attention of
B UYERB.
£nts, &r.
jjji.URS roE Ladies.
A LARGE ASSORTMENT 18 OFFERED OP
ELEGANT AND FASHIONABLE
FURS,
CONSISTING OP
BEAL BABLE, MARTIN, MINK, PITCH, AND
CHINCHILLA,
AT VERY LOW PRIOEB,
DAVID H. SODIS,
(NO. 622 ABOH STREET, ABOVE SIXTH.
dio-tf,,'"
Omtltuun’iß ®ooC«
Qi, E N T I. E MEN'S
;. irretmsiinNrca- goods.
The. lorgest'anortmeut in the y oily, and oampriaing
th® rawest styles of—
- FANCY 80ARF8, MUFFLISBB, *
NSCK-TIJEB, SHAWLS, ■
- SLOW-- l ’ - i DBESBIfH GOWNS,
HANDKERCHIEFS, SMOKING CAPS, &o.
~--jm 1 i i/.:. ..BUITABLM FOR
HOI4UAY PRESENTS.,
■Alioy' epaiy description of Stjlrfejp'Oollart, Under
shlrfijDrmrft, Half-Hose, Suspended, &0., irlllbe
found at , -
, SPENCER’S,
NO; 889 CHESTNUT STREET,
.. rj ADJOINING THE GIRARD HOUSE.
dlO-ijtl ’, . ■ 1 ■
WINCHESTER A 00., GENTLEMEN’S
VT FURNISHING STORE
, • , i -r - : in ! ■ ■
PATENT -SHOULDER. BEAM BHIBT MANUFAC
: TOBY,
At the Old Ptand, No. TM OHEBTNUT STREET, oppo
site the Wniblngtrm House.
A. WINCHESTER trill elre, ea heretofore, hie pet
tonal euperrWon to the CattfaomA Mejofeotarimt
lepartmente. - Orders for.hle celebrated etyleof Shirt*
aodCoUate SHed at the.ehorteat.notice. Wholesale
trade eapplied on liberej terms. , ~ Jy24-1y
JWVsCOTT.flate of the firm of "Wra
• <*rsr»* A Soot?|1 (GENTLEMEN'S PDMIBH
ING BTOBB .end BHIBT MANUFACTORY, 814
OHEBTNDT Street, (nearly oppoelte the Girard Honee,)
Fhil/delphle. - . . i ■ ■ • - , ...
J: ff, B. woald re*peetfally call the attention of hie
former patron* anifrlonda to hie new Store, ana ie pre
pared to SHI ordere-for SHIRTS et'ehorf notice. A
ernfeet StrgnuenUM. OODNTBY TRADE mp,tied
with PINE BHIBTB and COLLARS. JrlWf
€(StflustinfiB.
BAILT & BROTHER’S*
CARPET WAREHOUSE,
" . Wo. MO OBEBTEVT STREET.
WE SHALL OPEN TO-DAY ANOTHEB INVOICE
~. OF __
- ' - SNGLIfIH __ „ „
. lA.mBiT.RT ; BRUSSELS,
■■OROSSIiEY’S" CELEBRATED MAKE,
• At.
ONE DOi/jARA YARD.
Carpet taper* wlllsnd onr etookfoll and of freeh
MpleeTend PRICES VERY LOW■ "“S-tt
jgW NEWLAND & 00.,
LOOKING-GLASS ASD PICTUBS-PBAME
; : manufacturers,
WHOLESALE AND BUT AID.
: ’ ’ An Xxt®fislT® BtOOfc Of
1 OIL PAINTINGS) WATER-COLOR DRAWINGS
* ■£{ -. .' .
> -;AlUtTenpLoir,Pfleer, ~=
1 SOI ARCH s?t, ABOVE SIXTH, PHW4.
, 4T-*W
JJnblicationa.
Q.OULD & LINCOLN’S
BOOK LIST 808 THE
HOLIDAYS-
THE CHEAT DAY OF ATONEMENT. Neboloki,
THE ETENINC OF LIFE. Chaplin. $l.OO
Wetland. $lOO
SALVATION BY OHBIST.
THE CHRISTIAN LITE. Bayne. $1.26
THE OBEVBON LETTERS. Roger.. $126
THE BCFFEBINC SAVIOUR. Krummatlier. $1.26
LIFE AND TIMBB OF BACKUS.' Hovey. $1.25
of’ BNBHSH LITERATURE. Cham
bers. $6.00 .
ESSAYS IN BIOORAPHY AND ORITICIBM, 2 Toll.
Baysi. $1.29 eaoh.
LIFE OF AMOS LAWBBNOE. Lawrence. $l.OO
OYOLOPxEDIA OF ANKODOTKS. Arrtne, $8 00
EUBOFBAN OELEBBITIE3. Spragne. $1 00
HOME-BOOR OF MISCELLANY, 6 roll. Chambers.
$3.00
OBUIBB OF THE NORTH STAR. Chou’lS. $1 60
THE BETTER LAND. Thompson. Wots.
OYOLOfJbDIA OF BIBLICAL LITERATURE. Kitto.
, 7 -- $3.00-‘- ' ■ ,
LIFE OF DANIEL WEBSTER. Hansard. 76 ots,
THE ISLAND HOME. Romaont. 76 ote.
IMITATION OF CHRIST, LIFE OF A’KEMBIS. UU
man. 86 eta
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.; Knight. $1.26
THB BALLIC (from tho German.) Marsh. $lOO
THE I‘REACa|BR AND/KING. Bnogener. $1.26
THE EXCELLENT WOMIN. Spreguo. $l.OO
THE GREAT TEACHER.. Harris. Shots.
SAPS HOME, OR FANNY KENYON. Stoddard. 260.
OUR LITTLE ONES IN HEAVEN. Aimwell. 60 ots.
GATHERED LILIES. Thompson 81 els.
PLYMOUTH AND THE PILGRIMS. BanTard. 60 ots
MOTfIEBB OF THE WISE AND GOOD. Bnms. 760.
LIFE OF JAMES MONTGOMERY. Knight. $1.26
RELIGIOUS PROGRESS. Williams. 86 ots.
THE TBAOBER’S LAST LESSON. Badger. $l.OO
MY MOTHER, OR MATERNAL INFLUENOB„MItch
/’ . ell. 76 ots. y
HUGH MILLER’S WOBKS. Uniform in 6 roll. Miller,
j ' $7 00
THE POOR BOY AND MERCHANT PRINCE. Thayer.
76 eta.
THE POOR GIRL AND TRUE WOMAN. Tiujrtr. 760.
SPORTSMEN
la guested to their Stock, which they can pr
SHALL NOT BE "SURPASSED
By any in the United Statea.
THESAURUS OP BNGLIBH WORDS. Roget. $1.60. | RULES,
THE AIMWELL BIORIE3. In Boies. 6 role. Aim
weU.. 63 ole. each.
THE PLURALITY OF WOBLD3. Whewell. $l.OO
HEAVEN, illustrated. Kimbill. $l.OO
HISTORY OF PALESTINE. Kltto. fl 25
The ehoee may be bed in Txrioo, etylee of binding ~
cloth, doth gilt, half oalf, calf, Ac., suitable for pre
sents.' Any of them will be seat b/ mail fbub or
rosriQß to any one remitting the retail price.
G. <fc L. also have on Land, besides their own publi;
CAtioai, ft Urgtr assortment of elegant books designed
for the, holidays
A ,O ASD.
The nndertigned, the founder end PnbUeherot
VAN. COURT’S
COUNTERFEIT DETECTOR,
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, WEdJ&SDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1858.
Local Telegraphing.
Hithofto, we have beaten England in the
art of Telegraphing by means of Electricity.
;An, American' invented the art.. The first
ever flashed across the wire waa.in
America!) from Washington to Baltimore.
Wo have.a larger, better, quicker, and cheaper
mode of telegraphing, than any other people
in the World. For police purposes, too, as
woll as Jn cases of fire, we nse the telegraph
ih our great citjes. . There, we stop, and tliero
the inhabitants, of London—tlie yery people
whom w.e.contemptnously nickname Cockneys
---are going a step beyond us, Mid will boat ns,
if we do'not take care,'and anticipate them.
The UfeCrt news from England Is that' “ A
project’Was on foot for introducing a local
telegraphic system in London, upon a most
comprehensive scale. Messages are proposed
to bo “delivered within a radius of four miles
of Charlfig-crosa at a uniform charge of 4d.
for ten'jwordsj and in the course of a few
minutes. 1 19 Now,' such w a sensible project,
and we only wonder that it was not thought of
before, ahd put into operation among our-
Belves,Tong ago. At present, supposing that:
a .manMive *< np towD,” and has to send
a messagq home, 2 it will take him at* least an
hour,: Will have to pay a dollar to the
messenger. Get a local telegraph, and a
great of. trouble will be spared, every,
whero, and, much annoyance. Mr. John
Smith (we choose that name because it’s so
uncommon) lives in West Philadelphia, and
liis loving wife expects him homo punctually
at five*.'She will not touch 1 dinner until
come, np matter how much later that may be.
Loving soul! .She lets the soup grow cold,
the fish tumble to pieces, the boiled mutton
fasten on the ‘dish in its own frigid gravy, the
roast fowl cease to send- out its plea&adt odor,
fhe'mince pies get -chilled, and the icecream
grow liquid.- She loses her !dinner, and (it is
to be feared) also .loses her patience. * She
sits in the dining-room with her tearful eyes
steadily jixed upon the clock, anxiously and
angrily watching' the hours glide away. At
last, about half-past eight, hpmo walks Smith.
In tho familiar phraseology of domestic life
“ he cateh.es it!” She is indignant at his not
having been homo in time, at having kept her
waiting,>t having spoiled hor dinner. What
can tho much-to-be-pitied Smith say ? What
avails the excuse thatho met one of his best cus
tomers from the West, who unexpectedly paid
up an'old arrear and gave him a large order
besides,'and . had also to go to the Orleans
House iinddino vylth him, or was bound to,
invito him ? The excuse is not accepted; for
the -lady.will fall back- on the fact that he.
kept hop.’waiting.all those long hours ;
he krrotfs sbe'hover can dine without him, and.
(with tears and'alittle sobbing, but not enough
to makdher eyes and nose red,) that her af
fection has made her jo. lonely, in .his absence.
If, she adds, he had only sent her word.that
he was going to remain out, she would have
thought less of it. In the end, of course, they
make supper out of part of the dinner., But
Mrs. John Smith is not a truo wifo and woman,
if she make up that little fracas without stipu
lating oaa marital peace-offering in the shape
of a neW bonnet, a handsome cloak, a love of
a Bhawl, a duck of a dross, or seme “ costly
jewelry,. -Now, had there been a local tele
graph, Mr. John Smith, when ho agreed to
dine or to sup with his Western customer, (we
only hop 9 he was in such reputable society,)
need on his way to dinner, call at the
telegraph office, send a message to his wifo
infortjxmkiter.of- the* cause of 'delay,.and
of Daihoclea. 'Mr! John Smith, be sure of it,
will subscribe for ten proprietary shares in the
local telegraph.
Every person will see the advantage of such
dheap, rapid, and Teady communication.
Doctors, lawyers, traders, clergymen—all who
ore liable to bo wanted in a burry} all who
have to summoh other folks “in hot haste. 1 ’
Nor will the utility end here, llow tenderly
can it operate, in some cases. Your daughter
Jane Matilda has engaged to meet young Cen
tipede, (by accident, of course,) and take a
walk, and have a talk with him. Centipede,
jnst as ho is about starting, receives & tele
graph from Jano Matilda saying that cruel
fate (in the person of a harsh papa) will pre
vent her stirring out of doors. Whereupon
young Centipede returns his hat to tho peg, ap
plies himself to business for an hour or two,
and thanks his lucky stars tb&t tho local tele
graph has spared him the annoyance of cool
ing his heels, walking all around and all
-through Logan square, waiting for Jane Ma
tilda, who couldn’t come.
Suppose that tho course of truo love does
run smooth betwoon Jane Matilda and fyoung
Gentipedo-rthatyou give up all resistance to
Us current, on condition that Oentipedo senior
comes down with enough to start the junipr
Centipede in business, and ou the assurance
that the wicked youngster, who shows' his
« blood” by his skittishness, rcsolvos to reform
and live cleanly, like Falstaff purposed, aban
doning the seductions of,Otard, either “hot
Within ” or “ cold without,” limiting his Ni
cotine consumption to half a dozon cigars a day,
(he never did descend to a chew), abandoning
certain wild associates, .and, In short, doing
all that constitutes the moral miracle of “ turn
ing over a now leaf.” Then, when matrimo
nial preparations bewilder and delight blushing
Jane Matilda, what a consolation to her anx
ious and affectionate mind must be tho cir
cumstance of her being able to telegraph her
affianced, twenty times a-day if it please her
(and does not too largelydraw upon her pock
et money), while young Centipede can reply
just as often—if it please him, though tho
chance would bo that he would soon get tired
of tho iteration. Even the clergyman can bo
summoned by telegraph to marry them, and
the doctor—in sequent iblness of time.
In moro sorious matters, though wc doubt
whether any thing can well be more serious
than tho interesting change to which we refer
-i-at least, in busiueso matters, the local tele
graph’fi&n do a groat deal to relievo anxiety,
economise time, save trouble, and execute
work. TbiDk what it can do to facilitate ac
tion in politica. We need not point out how
useful it could bo made at elections, local,
State, or Congressional. Wo are sure it
would greatly help tho newspapers, then and
always. To think that this system wilt be at
work In London boforo It is in operation here,
Whero tho electric telegraph was invented,
where it first was reduced to an indisputable
fact!
Tho London District Company will provide
telegraph communication from headquarters
in «the City” and other parts of the metro-,
polis of England, with various localities
within eight miles irom Oharing-Cross, which
may bo taken as a centre point. London will
bo divided into eleven districts, each contain
ing one hundred stations, so that a despatch
can ho delivered in any part In the course of
a few minutes. As already stated, messages
of ten words will he despatched for oight
cents to any place within four miles of Char-
Ing-Cross, with some Bmall extra charge for
delivery# The neoessary capital is estimated
at $300,000, which can by subscribed in a few
hours, so well has tho proposition been re
ceived. The telegraph lines will be tho inex
pensive over-house and along-the-street system
•adopted in this and other American cities, and
introduced (chiefly for governmental and police
purposes) into Paris and Brussels, some time
ago. It will scarcely be credited by the bulk
of our readers that there was no local, or any,
open telegraph in London, until a fe\; months
ago, when "WatbUlow & Sows, wholesale sta
tioners in the City, ran a set of wires from tho
City to the "Westminster Polico offices, and
carried them over the roofs of tho houses.
Tho telegraph wires which carry messages to
and from tho different termini in London, run
under the streets, and as little in tho open air
as possible. This is from & dread that ,cock
ney mischief-makers might destroy or injure
the wires if .within their reach. Once out of
London, the wires run, as. with ns, alongside
of the. lines of railway..
Dick’s Patent Self-Adjusting Railroad
Switch.
A small exourslon train went from Philadelphia
to the beautiful village of Downingtown, Chester
oaunty, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, on Monday
afternoon, to witness one of ibe self-adjusting
railroad switohes invented' by James M. Dick, of
‘Buffalo, in praotlca! operation. Sevoral of tbe
directors and officers of tbe ooxnpany, the inven
tor, and a number of other gentlemen wero in the
oar. The invention is not designed to supersede
the necessity of the switch tenders now employed,
but its object is to restore the track to its usual
and proper position whenever, 'through oversight
or negleot, the switch-tenders have failod to do so,
by the operation of the engine itself,, and thus to
prevent the terrible accidents which would other
wise ocour.
, This patent switch is so constructed that the in
stant tbo flange of ,one of- the front wheels of the
locomotive touches a spring about twelve feet
from the switch the traok is' instantly readjusted.
The trial yesterday was’ perfectly satisfactory to
all who witnessed it. The looomotive, with the
inventor on it, was four times run over the switch,
the last time at the rate of about forty miles per
hour—the switoh being oaoh time purposely loft
open, and the position of tho rails being suoh that
"if the invention had sot folly answered the par
pose for .whioh U is,designed the locomotive would
Inovitably have ran off the track and tho lives of
thpso on it been seriously jeopardized. This new
switoh is simple in its construction, and cheap—
not costing more than $3O or $4O. It is evidently
a valuable safeguard, and when switch-tenders'
are neglectful; an occurrence that will occasionally,
happen in spite of all the ‘ precautions' that are
taken, it promptly provents disastrous aooident*.
It is now in nse on the New York Central, Buffalo
and Now York, New York and Erie, and other
leading and upon one occasion an ex
cursion tr.ain was .run with lightning speed ovor
one of these roads with soventeen switches pur
posely loft open, all of whioh were promptly olosed
by the engine itself.
Xetter from New York*
SIRA. CUNNINGHAM BURDELL—THE A9TOR LIBRARY
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Nxw York; Deo. 27, 1858.
A rumor managed to get considerable currency a few
weeks ago, that Mra.'Gunningh&m Burdell was living in
the cosiest possible style in Forty-eighth street.. This
runorls now denied by the New York correspondent
ef the Boston Journal , understood to be the Rev.
Matthew Hale Smith, her counsel at one stage of her
case. He says;
“ She Is not in ‘ easy circumstances,’-but Is reduced
and poor. The ‘elegant mansion l is a house in!a
block on the new upper street, for which she is indebted
to the kindness of the owner till spring. Her bouse is
not entirely furnished; the most of it not stall; and.
what is, is of the o n mmonest style. She has wasted al 1
the property she had, and is not able,to take a house of'
comfort. All the ordinary avenues of ' employment
open to most .women are olosed against her. The
prejudice against this woman was never stronger -
than new, and, having spent all nbe had to' defend her
self la courts of law, she ,fs now-very poor, and would
keep a boarding-house Or do any honorable thing to get
a living if she could do 80, Her daughter-August* his
not been ‘ married to a Southern planter.’ but to -a
young man in this city, who has not one dollar to rely
upon but what he etras from day to day; and - the Tu
mor about Helen Is as apocryphal at she rest of the
story.” . . -
The scholars of New York are not a little
that tbe trustees of the Astor Library are about tp
light the building with gas, and open it in the evening
for visiters. A goodly number of clever men, who are
otoupied during the day in the lower portion of this
city, will hereafter be able tj enjoy its advantages at
night. iThe, library is dally receiving larg'd addliious-
The Harpers hare'several works of interest nearly
ready for publication. Among them a novel by Obarles
Baade, entitled “ Maid, .Wife; and Widow V* “Sylvan
Halt’s Daughter,” by Holme Lea; “ The Laird of N&r
law,” a Scottish story, by the author of “'Margaret
Maitland;” and “ Mura About Jesus,” by the author of
“Peep of Day.” A marked feature in the book trade
the past year has been the increased demand for reli
gious books, while in the other departments of litera
ture tbe sales have been comparatively small.
It has recently been ascertained by some pains-taking
piodder'aftar foots connected with poverty, that there
,w§lB*^6,popw.n# whp.ilfe underground in this, city/
«re«3ea*lS»4 ~oi
do? roomi,Y,i4t j'ffff'baiftmedts, ‘cleaii.y^rzff/do 1
cupsnta, clean, 13,033; do. basements, dirty, 1,016;
do. occapsnte, dirty, 6,425.
001. Abraham Van Baren, son of the ex.PrtsMent,
has sold his entire plantation or slsveß, 210 in number,
for 8147,000.
The “ Lowber claim” against the city has finally
been satisfied. On Fridsylait the sheriff sold a large’
number of the piers belonging to 'the city, and several
valuable lots, with buildings thereon, for ao aggregate'
of $178,520. This cancels Lowber’s claim, but the city,
will be obliged to pay fourteen percent, interest on tho
amount paid for the real estate sold until it Is redeemed
from tbe purchasers. If not redeemed within one year,
the title will pass from the olty forever. The property
bought by Lowber is estimated to be worth, at tbe low
est, a million of dollars, and it wouldn’t be at all sur~.
prising if he should manage to retain the whole of it.
Aldermen areßlippory, and Lowber is sharp.
Persons interested in the roreign trade say
that the indications or a 'arge importat oa for the spring
business are slow Iu making their appearance. A por
tion of the foreign dry goods interest disoouroge tbe
opinion that tho movement will be heavy, ai compared
with 1855, though It will be considerably larger than
January and February last.
Printers are looking up. Mr. Franklin J. Ott uson,
formerly foreman of tbe Tribune composing-room, ]«t
terly.at tbe head of the oity department of that journal,;
and recently eleoted a member of too Beard of Oouucll
msn, has been agreed upon by the Republican and
Know-Nothing members of the board as their candi
date for president, bat he will probably lack oaeortwo
votes of the nnmber requisite to elevate him to the
ohair.
The sheriff-elect, John Kelly, has given as his sure
ties. Collector Schell and James Connor, (type-foun
der). The office is the most lncratlveoneln the United
-Btatea, being worth from forty to one hundred thousand
dollars per year, Just as he happens to “light upon'
ohlps.”
Recorder Barnard has decided, informally, that It is i
not a violation of the law to publish in this State the
advertisement of a lottery legal in another State..
Hitherto a different precedent has been followed,and ,
a fine has been Imposed for their publication.
The Oentral Park is at present a great point of attrac
tion. No parks in London, or perhaps in Europe, oan
compare with its natural surface for variety and beau
ty. It has singular depressions for water, level aurf»-‘
ces for gardens, crioktt grounds, and grounds for mili
tary display, rough, rocky elevations for artistic taste
and scenery, gentle hill-sides for paths, and plotnres quo
drives, and an unrivalled length of broad, beautiful
roadway for ckrrliges, The skaters are just now having
grand frolics there.
On Saturday and Sundajr not less than a thousand
persons mounted their skates and rockers, and kept it
up till night. Bpeclal provision Is to be made for
skating and curling clubs The night preceding any
tournament a stream of water vfffi be lef on in suffi
cient volume to cover the entire space designated, so
that In the morning the club will have virgin ice, on
which they can exhibit their skill. All thlß is Contem
plated and spoken of, ami seemingly the only thing
necessary to secure Its realisation is the presence of
the clubs, for the commissioners and officials con
nected with tbe park appear to be highly pleased with
the pnblio patronage that the pond has ahead/ re
ceived.
Letter from Kentucky.
KENTUCKIANS—TUEIR SOCIAL CHABACTEKISTICS—
KENTUCKV hEADTY—POLITICS, Ao.
(Correspondence of Tbe Press.]
Danville, Ky., Deo. 2, 1858.
This is indeed a charming village. Havo you
ever seen that most beautiful of New England
towns—Cambridge 1 It is the-prototype of Dan
ville. Hero, too, are institutions of learning,
nobly endowed and ably conduoted, Hero, too,
are a people of rare cultivation, who have a taste
for the beautiful and a band lavish in ministoring
to that taste. Tho society is such as I have never
met before in a village of its size. It exhibits
suoh a happy commingling of fashionable
ceremony, ana nativo warmth, and simplicity,
that I am almost tempted to shout ‘‘Eure
ka!” over this new found Arcady, for
surely never did that olassio land possess at
onoe so muoh of slmplioity and refinement, ond so
little of rusticity and stiffness. As to the town it
self, it is regularly and rectangularly laid out—
tho streets being- broad, well graded, and lined
with elegAnt cottage-like residences, embowered
in negligently, but tastefully disposed oiusters of
various Kinds of evergreens and shrubbery. Not
withstanding the liberality and refined taste of
Kentuokians individually, they manifest, as a
olasa, I regret to say, a woful lack of public spi
rit. Tho good folks ot Danville, for example,
seem to be perfectly oontented with what they
and their fathora before them have accomplished,
and to arouse them to further exertion would be
extremely difficult, If not impossible.
To give you a more perfect idea of Danville,
and of things hereunto pertaining, I will give
you the results of my observations as I sit at my
window, Boahningthe “map of busy life in the
street below. This street is the Chestnut
street or Broadway of the town. It is
“County Court Day” in Danville—always a
great oooaslon in Kentucky towns. The whole
village is resonant with the lowing ofhordB,the
shouts of drovers and teamsters, tmd tho loud
bawling of auotioneeis. Everything is ‘‘confusion
, worso oonfoumled,” and one unaccustomed to such
noisy displays is almost deafened with tho Babol
of sounds— yoils, oaths—that make the
f °But ft what ll a'’study is that otOwd. Hero a tall,
awkward mountaineer, none the better for tho
“ rlflo whiskoy” ho has imbibed, hob-nobs with
a dapper little blaok-leg—there a drover, in his
muddy, rusty, ragged homespun, jostles a staid,
nrim professor,"arrayed in sanotlty and broadcloth
—while all- around are"pflrt students, and demure
theologians, admiring or orUietslng„the ! pretty
TWO CEJNTS.
fiees and shapely ankles that flit coquet tishiy
through the thronging crowds.
'But, en passant, you have’ heard much, con*
oerning, the beauty, of Kentucky /women; ‘they
are famed for their, personal • oharms, and, in
my opinion, justly po. There are here all styles
of beauty, and each' style 'is' sufficiently near
perfection to suit the most fastidious. Come,
take a seat beside me, while I point out some
of these beauties. Ah.! you are justinttime. l See
those blooming Houris os they approach the store
just m fronttof us. How differontjthey are, and yet
how beautiful both! She' with' the merry
blue eyes and pouting Ups—“sweet petitionera
lor kisses ’■—contrasts very charmingly with ‘that
tall, regal brunette, who, with ber'softiy flashing
orbs and elegant carriage, would realise a poet’s
most exquisite poetical conception of' an' orient
queen. And either of these would 1 Contrast
(though unfavorably to neither) most strikingly
with the one who follows, and in whom some, per
haps, would find much moro to admire;, that pale,
pensive beauty, with the pure, high forehead and
spiritual expression—do you see her? And what
admirable taste these Kentucky ladies exhibit in
their,dress!—so elegant, so rich, and yet so unob
trusive and beoomlng. There is nothing gay and
flaunting'about it, but everything indicates refine
ment as well as taste. ' ‘ •
Coin©, oh, Press! I beg of youi Come to Ken
tucky, if you would see beautiful, lovely, and;ac
complished women. , :
And, finally, as the preachers say, a few words
about “ politics,” and I will bring this prolix epis
tle to'a close: The Kentuokians are; it is evident,
disgusted'with the present imbecile,' “weak
kneed ” 'Administration; indeed, it'would (be
strange if they were not so. Bold, manly,' tad
deoided themselves, they look, for boldness, man
liness, and deoision. In their leaders, . Mr.! Ru
ohanan has shown ‘himself-to be utterly destitute
of these qualities. < Where are-Kentuokians to
look- for them ? - Need I answer, in that bold cham
pion of popular rights who has reoently brought a
corrupt and unscrupulous Administration cowering
to his feet? The gallant Douglas is the idol before
which the great, honest Kentucky heart has made
its offerings. -There.is something eminently pleas
ing in the coarse which this hold and pafcridfcio
ohieftain has pursued. Chivalrous themselves, they
admire chivalry in others. While Douglas retains
• the affections .of the I doubt not! in
tho least his doing so—he ,will hove 'their hearty
and undivided support. v- ; * . 1
The Three Fishers. . ‘
sr THE BBV. CIIAULBS KIKOSLBY.
Three Fishers,went Sailing out into the West— ; -
Out into the West, as tbe sou went down; ' / ,
Etch thought of the woman that lov’d him the best, -
And the children stood watching them out of the
town j 1 ’
For men must work and women must Veep, ->
And toere’sjittle to eSrsand many to keep, i
Though the harbor bar bff moaning.
Three wires sat up in the light-house tower, f
And they trimm’d the,lamps as tbe buq went down(
Th«y look’d at the f quail, and they look’d at the show’r,
' And tbe night-ruck oarne rolling up ragged and brows,*
But men must work and women must weep, ‘
Tho'storms be sudden and waters deep, <
And the harbor bar be moaning. £
Three corpses lay out on the shining sands, :
In the morning gleam as the tide went down; •
And the .women are watching and wringing their hands
For those who will never come back to the town; S
For men must work and women must weep, .
And the sooner its o’er tbe sooner to sleep, ’!
And .good-bye to the bar and its moaning. j
[From Punch.]
Three merchants went riding out into the West,, \
On the top of the ’bus, a a the sun'went down r
Etch thought of his w'fe, and how richly shedrest,]
• And the growing circumference ofhernew gown; i[
For wives must dress and husbands mustpay,
And there’s plenty to get and little to gsjr
While the milliner’s bill is running.
Three wives sat rp in Jane Olarko’s for hours,- *
And they told her to pat every article down; . ;
They ordered the silks snd they ordered thefiowers,;
And the hill it kept rolling up, gown upon gown; j
For wives mjwt dress and husbands will pay, • -
Though perhaps they will be in a terrible way, , f
When'they’re dunned for the bill that is running.
Three bankrupts were figuring in tbe gazette,
On a' Toesday'njght, when 1 the sdn went' down,
And the women wore weeping and quite in a pet, i
; For the dresses they nevec will show to the town a
For wives will dress, htubanda can’t pay, \
And bankruptcy’s surely the pleasantest way. - ;
To get rid of the bill and the dunning.
latest Foreign News.
The Bank of England, on tbe'loth instant, re
duced tho rate <of discount to 2J per'oent. Tbit
step ore&ted quite a sensation in the city, as
had ceased to expeot tho reduction. The rise in
exchanges,'the accumulation of gold, thedifficulty
of finding profitable investments, and the lower
rates of discount accepted in the open market;
will,* however, account for the alteration. The
result was an' increasing firmness on the Stock
‘K»»h«mge„aud.flopy>lgj:ogeabout^ f peroent/- i *-
- In jrsgpsoa at a baoqpefe
gars’ Company m Londori,' tn’d Earl of "CarnarVonr
(riot a member of the Cabinet) took tbe ooportu--
nity of deolaring tho total dtssept of. the Govern-*'
ment from the recommendations of Sir J. Young’s,
purloined despatch relating to the future polioy to
be pursued in tho - protectorate of the lonian-
Islands.
A second edition of the Cork Reporter nn-!
nounces that ou tbe morning of tho 7th Deoember,'
fifteen prisoners, charged with , being members of
an illegal society, arrived by the Bandon train,-
under the escort of a largo body of police. The
ouptured scorned to be all yonng men of respecta-*
ble position in sccioty. Twelve of- them are from
Skibheroon, and tbre-c fcomßantry. The'capture
was effected on Wednesday night, when most of
the parties were in bad. They are charged with;
being members of the PnusnU Society, and the in
-formations have boon sworu against them by ono<
of their own body, (the old story,) a person named 1
Sullivan. The object, of this confederation of fools
is said to have boen for the purpose of obtaining
an invasion of Ireland by Amerioan filibusters.
Tho Warning Post having stated'that Mr.
Ho roc o Rumbold had been nominated’'British
minister to Pekin, tbe Times state
ment that the Hon. Frederick Brace, brother to
Lord Elgin, is to have the mission, and that Mr.
Rumbold will merely accompany him in an in
ferior onpaoity."
Lola Mon tea is leoturing on America and its
people in Dublin.
Mr. Herbert Ingram, proprietor of the Illus
trated London News , one of the members of
Parliament from Boston has been .mulcted in the
sum of £3OO by a jury for misrepresenting knowing
ly that he had booome the purchaser, in 1852, of the
Castlo Hyde ostato, in the county of Cork, and so
lending himself to a fraudulent misrepresentation
of the fate JohnSadleir, made by him to tbe plain
tiff (Mr. Vincent Soully, a distinguished member
of the Irish bar,) whereby the plaintiff was
prejudiced.
Tub Lowndean Professorship of Astronomy, va
cated by.the death of the Dean of Ely. has been
oooferrea upon Mr. Adamß, Fellow of Pembroke,
who, it will be remembered, oleimed the discovery
of tbe planet- Neptune with M. Leyeirier,.
Mrs. Isabella Begg, nee Burns, the youngest
sister of the poet, bas'just died at Bridgehouse,
near Ayr, inker 88th year. She was interred' in
the yard of Allowaykirk,’Tieside her brother.
Tbe Paris'obrrespondent of the Times says: “I
learn that the 21st instant is the day appointed for
hearing M* d« Montatembert’s appeal. The Presi
dent or the Court will be M. Perot de Cbeselles;
the Rapporteur . M. Treilhard, of tbe Court Im
perial ; and M. Ohaix d’Est Ange will act as Pro
cttreitT. There are several versions afloat; the
one which seems most credited, is that the Bnlpe
ror’s pardon will be pleaded in answer to the ap-
extraordinary foat, eays Qalignanl, of »lay
ing eight games of ohess simultaneously without
seeing the board iu instance, will be per
formed by M. Hnrrwits. in the rooms of the Paris
chess-club, over tbe Cafe de la Regenoo, on the
eventog of the 18th inst, M. Harm its makes no
seleotionof his adversaries, )but is ready-to break
a lance on this occasion with any players that
may he proposed What will add to the interest
of this great effort of memory, is tho faot that, in*
all probability, M. Andersson, the great Breslau
player, will be present, that gentleman having
written word that he hopes to be iu Paris a little
before that time. ... ...
The father of the Jewish child Mortara is about
to settle in Franco. A letter from Rome In tho
Gazette de Liege, states that the fcfaored Collogo
at Rome has resolved to prevent the recurrence
ot any case similar to that of Mortara -in future,
by directing that Christians Bh&ll not In future be
allowed to enter the service of the Jews
It would seem, from letters from Spain, that the
expedition to Moxloo will he on a larger scale
‘than was supposed. During the Queen’# visit to
Corunna last August, it was resolved to .form a
general depot thore.forthe recruiting, equipment,
and instruction of men for Porto Rio'S and the
Havana, and to supply the deficiency caused by
draughts of troops rrom the Antilles to Mexico»
“There are eoveral depots of tho same kind estab
lished at the'ether ordinary ports of embarkation
for Amerioa, snob as Cadis, Santander, And Bar
celona. , There is to be, moreover, a grand depot
at Porto Rioo, where the troops, ate to remain a
fixed time to get accustomed to a tropical climate
before they ponetrated to the unhealthy Gulf or
Mexico. “ The. polioy of O’Donnell about Mexi
co,” says a private letter, “ is to put forth' all our
available strength, which he thinks, perhaps not
unjustly, will make us more respected there, ny
our enemies as by our friends.” ,
There are continued indications of disturbance
In Northern Italy, to which a circular just issued
by Sardinia, repudiating all thought or possibility
ot war with Austria, is calculated to minister.-
The Turin journals speak of a riruggle as a thing
which oannot be long delayed. # A Milanese cor
respondent of th a Piccolo Corners of Italia as
serts that collisions havo already taken place, and
many arrests made in Milan and Pavia. In the
latter town concealed arms had been discovered,'
and tho garrison reinforced. Hasty orders were
said to have been givon for new fortifications at
Venice.
In tho University of Mosoow, gratuitous instruc
tion is givon to all applicants in musto, dancing,
and fencing.
A Young Rufsian.—The Detroit Tribune
notices the appoaranoe, in the streets of that oity,
of Charles Baker, who, four year? ago, at the ag®
of sixteen, was sent to the State prison for iue.
Ho was the leader of a gang of burglars, who were
a terror to the owners of merohanaieein Detroit,
and although hie sentence was approved at tne
time, Btill it was a matter of surprise . a
only sixteen, years old should
direoled the "Bchemos, securing m
men old enough to be hu fathof This boy Bakec
having behaved himself during the four Joan of
his imprisonment in tho most exemplary manner,
was nardonod by Governor Bingham, on that »o.
qoont and in consideration of his extreme youth.
nOFIOE DOBKkSPPMOiCHn.
Oovreepondenta for “To Fuss” will pleus bear is
mind the following ralas:
Xvery eommunieatioa must be aeeompanied ty the
name of the' writer/' In nrder to insure correotoees la
the typography, but one side ef the sheet should be
Written upon* -
We shall be greatly obliged to gentlemen in Pass*
sylvaaia and other State# far oontributlons firing tbe
opnreat news of-the day in their j particular
the resources of the surrounding eountry, the increase
of population/orsayinformation tost will be Interest
ing to the general reader.
GENERAL NEWS.
“Let Me Kiss Him fob His Mother.”—
The editor of the New Orleans Advocate has this
;?® l 5®PA a bout the ravages of the yellow fever in
f®Jated to him by one of the Methodist
pastors,. The' preacher was called a few days
sineeto attend the funeral of a young man.' Bo
to sickness he was a stout, buoyant,- m&nlv
youth. He was from the State of Maine, and hid
been here put a short time. ’He was attacked by
yellow fever, and soon died,' with no- mother or
relative to watoh by his bed-side, or to soothe hi&i
• with that sympathy which none but those oi 1 cur
own * dear kindred blood’ can feel or .manifest.
He died among strangers,and was buried by thesi.
when the funeral service was over, aid the strange
friends who had ministered to him were about to
finally dose the,coffin, an oldlady/who stood by.
stopped them and said, f Define kiss him for his
mother P , We have yet to find the first man or
woman to whose eyes this simple recital has not
brought tears.” r
Wz are sorry to perceive that dealers have
stooped to the us fairness of attemptlngto deprlvo
“Bufnettd; Co.:of the r just reward of-their
skill and enterprise, by .offering-in.'tbe<m&rkct an
arliole evidently intended to be sold with the ira
presnon that it is tbe justly celebrated ’and very
valuable “ Goooaine,” while it is >qnite another
affair, mada-ln New York,'and oalled, to af’oid a
iMwltive imitation, “ Cocoine ” This is a* potr
subtonuge, and should not be suffered to be prac
?* W?** of . the very respectable, and re
sponsible gentlemen who have' devoted so znnoh
time, care, and capital in offering to' tbe public
their excellent invention, the “ Betaine.” tad wo
trust tb<y will have ample legal protection against
so palpable an infringement of their rights.—Bos
ton Post. 'v , . . ■
~ The New Yorkers are having a fine time on
the Central Park Pond, whleb has been made into
a oapital skating place.- A part of i the noud has
been set apart for children and their parents; and
huts, with stoves in them, are to be built on Bhoro
for the benefit of ladies and children, and of tho«e
who happen to get a bath. ,A portion of the pond
is also set apart for skating and curling clubs.
Officer# are.present to preservh order, 1 catch’pick
pockets, etc; A, thief • stole a'pair of skates on
Christmas, was arrested, apd obliged to give $6OO
bail. On Christinas morning the .Tee'wa#-three or
four inches thick, and from morning till night the
number of 'ckatcra increased, and ‘ori Sunday nix
or seven hundred were oir theloo at a time. '
. EiTKAORBiHAur OoiL.—The I Parkersburg
(Va.) News announces the diseovery.'in that re
gion, of a speoimen of coal - which Is said to
surpass the oaniisl. The News adds“ It is
very light, and pan he Ignited as easily as a
pieoe of dry white pine Wood.- It ii extremely
gaseous, and omits a very strong odor when bnm
»«■ A, piece as Urge as a small marble, placed
in-the bowl of a olay pipe, made air tight, and
then inserted in a hot fire, gave out gas enough at
tho end of the sfem to bum, frith a bright light,
for five minutes. : It only could’Sensed for making
Bas or; ell it h«8 .not sufficient solidity to bum
in.a grate or store;,but would probably- ran oat
through the bars in a tort of oil or.pitch.”
, Mr. R: H. Tbipp from Hampden,
Wisoonrin, to the Spiritual Telegraph, that the
spirit# have broken his habit of ohewicg tobacco.
He says that on a cortam occasion he' was riding
across the prairies in hla hia
quid of tobacco was taken out of his mouth by-the
invisibles,'and bis mouth made to taste as-though
it was filled with copperas; ahd.thathehas never
been&ble to take a qoid since. The same writer
relates, that a medium, - who was under spiritual
control) wanted a drink of .water*,and that tbe
spirits took him down into a well twenty feet, to
the water, and brought him np with a dipper two
thirds full. ’• "- -
•Taxiso Cabs of Himself*:—ln Cincinnati,
a few evening#-since/ a*dx-foot'Hookier was ob
served by 1 a - policeman 'walking* on -the'router
edge 6f the sidewalk, swinging a brick, and when
balled; replied, VDou’t come .-The
officer; however; “surrounded” Him,-as a I)atoh
mau'would say, when the Hoorier said he bad the'
proceeds of adroveof hogs In hfcrpochet; andhe
feared bp wonld ; be robbed if .he went to hi# hotel,
and lest anybody should garrotohim in the strret,
ho .carried the brick, and-walked along the outride
of tbe sidewalk;' ■ *
A iTaw named Hankford, living in Dinwiddle
county. a pet bear whidh be kept
ohaioed In the. door-yard. •A short*time vinee, his
son, .a fine hoy of tbfrteen; thoughtlessly annoyed
the bear by punching him- with' a: pole, and. hap
pening to come within reach of the.enraged beast,
the bear caught him, crashed in hi# ribs, and tore
his arm out attheehoulderV-heferethe’unfortuhato
lad could be xesoued. The bear was immediately
Shot. . . ' .
A Valuable 'Pjlar.^-At the Christmu ex*
eroiscs in the 'Paoifle Btreet M. ErOhufeh, Brook
lyn, New York,' the pastor; Rev; Mr.- Milbnfne,
was presented with a monster- pear, which, fora
time, excited some cariosity; It was finally opened,
and in tbe centre was fonnd a oheok on a specie
paying bank for $615, payable to the order of 'toe
pastor.
A laborer named James Doe, of Hardiog
ham t Norfolk, Eogland, lately lost hi# life in en
deavoring to eat a pound of'raw.sausages in .two
minutes. He had nearly, accomplished the filthy
feat,‘when the last sausage stuck In his throat and
caused'hlrdoato, v - *- ,
a
New/York on Sunday night,--ran np
stain to the toiTd story-of tho house he had been
operating in.'and finding olose behind
Mmjraised the window and leaped into toe street,
failing bn his-faoe and bruising it horribly.
The Woodstock (Gt.) Standard is respon
slbrefor the statement that a hen, killed in Hart
land, last week, after h knife was put through her
throat, and her feathers pioked off, effected bor
escape, and ran to her nest in the bam, and laid
an egg.
Southern Gold Mikes. —According to the
statistics, published in the New York Herald, the
goldmines in North Carolina havo, since 1838,
yielded the sum of $9,458,223, and those of Geor
gia $7,579,052.
A Corbet Band in St. Louis ordered,
from of pure silver instrument?
The leader’s cornbt-toofrgQld, and eastssljs&9. A
enare drum cest $145. ■
The Bon-Mots of Talleyrand#
A wonderful wit was Talleyrand.' His bon
mots, which for thirty years wore -the delight of
Frenchmen and the rest of mankind, are marked
not merely by' the brevity which is always the
soul of wit, but by subtlety of thought and delipa
oy of expression which constitute their highest
charm. Besides this, the keenest sarcasms had
usually a certain air of good breeding that dis
tinguished them, greatly to his credit,-from .the
malignant jest# oLßoger# and the rough retorts of
Douglas Jerrold. Nothing in the way of a witty
and oivil rebuke could be finer than his reproof of
a young gentleman who was boasting of the ex
treme beauty of his mother, apparently implying
that it might account for the same advantage in
the person of the son: O' etait done , said the
great diplomat, blandly, Monsieur votre pere qui
n'etait pas si bten ! “It was your father, then,
who was not handsome!”
Lord Holland, in Ms Foreign ReinlDlseenoes,
gives another bon-mot of Talleyrand, frhioh is not
to be fonnd in the old list of his olever sayings..
At the time when the celebrity of Chateaubriand,
the valneßt of sfil Frenchmen, was rapidly on the
wane, it happened to be mentioned in conversation
that he was growing quite deaf, and that ha com
plained bitterly of that infirmity.' la
said Talleyrand, depuis qulori- a cess'e de parley
de lui, il se croit soutd7 “I understand; sinoe
everybody has ceased talking about him he be-*
lievea himself deaf!” The only ungallant remark
that is recorded among his innumerable jests is his
saucy comment on the tender regard that he had'
onoe entertained for Madame de Stael: “It faut
avoir ante, Mme. de Stael pour connaitre tout
lebonheur d'aimer une bate !”-
But his finest witticism, and as happy a sarcasm
as ever oAme from any* man, is told in Lord
Brougham’s Times of George 111. This has all
the politeness as well as the sabtle wit that usually
characterized the . bon-mots of Talleyrand Not
long after his breach of friendship with Madame
de gt&el, that very intellectual ana extremely mas
culine woman wrote hor novel ‘of Delphine, in
: which Bho satirised her former friend- in the
'character of an old woman, while she intended
all toe delloate oharms of toe heroine to be ta
'ken as hers. Chanoing to meet Madame de S.
soon-after the publication of the book in a
fashionable assembly, -he said to her, bowing
politely, “ I understand, msdame, that in your
last novel you and I figure as dtsguiscdfemales
The retort waq certainly a stunner, and for keen'
wit was such as no other man could have made.
: Rut never was a wind bag so handsomely puno
tured as when he took the “ sublime” out of an
egotistloal and vainglorious speeoh of Mirabeau.
At some important political crisis the great orator
was descanting in sooiety on toe qualities which
a minister required to extricate the nation from
its difficulties? namely,' great knowledge, genius,
familiarity with the upper dosses, the gifc of
writing and speaking eloquently, all oF which
qualities, it was obvious enough, he reokoned as
his own. Everybody stared with admiration, bat
Talleyrand, who simply listened attentively to
the end, and then observed: “It seems to me
you have emitted one of the qualities of this re- -
markable man; should be not be very mnoh
pitted with smallpox, {pique de la petite verole )
This could be none other than Mirabeau, and the
effect upon toe auditors oan only be imagined.—
Boston Post,
The Tariff and the President# ‘
.(From the Baltimore Exchange, an Administration
paper.]
Tho President—whoso sagacity no ooe will deny
however much wo may lament that it Is too often
employod on subjects and betrayed by men wholly
beneath his notion—took a statesman-like ana
practical view of the question In his late message.
his fate to differ with the Secretary of
the Treasury, whioh he did with the modesty be
coming their relative positions. He stated, as the
result Of his long experience and reflection—which
are entitled to the highest respect from a oountry
in whose service he has grown grey—that “ snecfic
duties" afforded the most certain incidental pro
tection to home manofaotures, and the rarest safe
enard against fraud. Mr. Cobb, by a dexterous
manipulation of figures, made It appear, and so
said, that frauds" were 'as common before as sinoe
the adoption of the ad valorem system, and coolly
gave Mr. Buchanan’s suggestions the go*by—re
garding thorn, probably, as the result of the preju
dices of an old Pennsylvanian gentleman some
what behind the times and rusty in.his political,
economy. We trust the fa ot that Mr. Buchanan
is merely the President of the United States will
not cause his views to be slighted when compared
with those of the.high dignitary-who opposeshim,.
but that the difference or .opinion between, thee©
eminent statesman—whioh has been stf frankly •
laid befere'the world—will lead to an examination
of. their respective systems, and a final adoption of
a line of policy wiser, more stable, and mpre ap-.
pro&ohinga finality,'than any-we have.yet had in*-
yolving tills Important Street*