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MR. 014 D,TONE
Beyond doubt, the most noticeable pub
lic man in England, at this crisis, is WIL
LIAM EWART GLADSTONE, Chancellor of
the Exchequer under Lord PAmmusToN,
In d g e n erally looked upon by politicians
as not unlikely to succeed him as Prime
Minister—a contingency which may not be
remote, seeing that the veteran will be
eighty-one years old on the 20th of Octo
ber. The fact of Mr. GLADSTONE having
been driven out of his seat in Parliament
by a majority of votes in the University of
Oxford, which he had represented during
the last eighteen years, and immediately
elected by South Lancashire, his ejection
and election arising from the same cause
(his recent profession of ultra-liberal prin
ciples,) has invested him with miustiiil
eclat. At once, as people may choose to
consider it, he is a martyr, or a conqueror.
Intolerant Oxford declares him a renegade,
while liberal Lancashire boasts of him as
an enlightened convert. The shield is silver
on one side, and golden on the other.
Mr. GLADSTONE cannot be considered a
young man, having first become a member
of Parliament thirty-three years ago. On
the 29th of December he will be fifty-six
Sears old. Ills real name, by the way, is
GLADSTONES—his father having obtained
royal license to drop the finals in February,
1835. That father was himself a man of
great ability. While yet a youth lie ran
away from his Scottish birth-place (Leith,)
became cabin-boy in a merchant vessel
trading bet Ween Liverpool and the West
Indies—successively rose to be seaman,
mate, master, owner, merchantsettled in
Liverpool, in the latter capacity, in the
closing decade of the last :century- 7 -went,
largely and successiblly, into the slave
trade, which was not abolished by law
until March, 1807 realized an immense
fortune, part of which he invested in the
purchase of the estate of Fasciae; in Kin
cardineshire, Scotland—was created a
baronet at the advanced age of eighty-two,
and died five years later.
The present Chancellor of the Ex
chequer, born in 1802, is the fourth son of
this Sir Joni GLADSTONE. For many
years, Mr. CANNING, the great orator,
statesman, and wit, was M. P. for Liver- .
pool, and was accustomed to pay frequent
visits to his constituents. JOHN CrLyn-
STONES, subsequently GLADSTONE, was a
strong Tory and a staunch personal and
political friend of CAN - NINO, It has been :
affirmed that young GLArismoNE used to
listen, 'when CANNING was his father's
guest, to the political conversation at the
table, and thence received or strengthened
a bias towards public life. Perhaps he did,
but he was not 18 years old when CANNING
died.
Educated at Eaton, young GLADSTONE
completed his education at the University
of Oxford, where he was elected student of
Christ Church before he was twenty, and
graduated in his twenty-second year as a
" double first-claSs," which is equivalent to
the rank of " senior wrangler" at Cam
bridge, and, in both cases, indicates that
the recipient of this honor is the best man
of his year in classics and science. In Iti.3
year, the late Sir ROBERT PEEL, also, was
a " double first." After leaving the Univer
sity, Mr. GLADSTONE made an extensive
foreign tour, returning in time to become
M. P. for the borough of Newark, in the
first Reform Parliament, elected in Decem
ber, 1822.
At that time the Duke of Newcastle was
the chief owner of Newark, and claimed
the right of dictating to the inhabitants
whom they slyould elect. It was said that
he was sometimes paid, in hard cash, fif
teen to twenty thousand dollars by each
member thus "elected," but that sometimes
he returned a member without payment,
provided he was able or eminent. His men
had to profess strong Toryism, and GLAD
STONE, at that time, was as intolerant as
any of the Duke's friends. He spoke very
rarely during the first two years, apply
ing himself to studying the tone and tem
per, the rules and habits of Parliament,
but surely established the reputation of
being a safe young man, too rich (by
a princely allowance front his father,) to
be ambitious for the mere pecuniary advan
tage of office, and one who was likely,
after his brilliant successes at Oxford, to
have an illustrious future of his Own. He
especially attracted the attention and won
the regard of Sir ROBERT PEEL, who, on
becoming Premier, at the close of 1834,
made him one of the Lords of the Trea
sury, and subsequently Colonial Under-
Secretary. PF.F.L's Government broke up,
however, in April, 1835, and PEEL and his
friends remained in " the cool shade of
opposition" until the .autumn of 1841.
During this recess Mr. GL ADSTONE (1838)
published his first work, The ,State in Rela
tion with the Church ; which rgACAULAY
criticised, with compliments to the author,
in the Edinburgh Review. In 1839, Mr.
GLADSTONE, married one of the two sisters
of Sir STE:LIMN GLYNNE (tile other is wile
of Lord LITTLETON,) who brought him a
large fortune, much happiness, and eight
children—the eldest of whom has lately be
come M. P. for Chester.
In September, 1841, on Pt ELIS return to
office, Mr. GLADSTONE was made Vice
President - of the Board of Trade and
Master of the Mint, and ,a Privy Coun
cellor. It was his duty to explain and de
fend in Parliament the commercial policy
of the Government, in which his mercan
tile origin, experience, and connection
proved of great service. In 1842 the re
vision of the British tariff, PEEL'S first do
nation of Free Trade, was almost wholly
the work of OrakusroNE. The plan, when
placed before the lionse of Commons, w
found to be equally admirable in its details
and Masterly in its principles. It passed
both houses with scarcely an alteration. In
May, 1843, Mr. GLADSTONE was made
-President of the Board of Trade, but re
signed in February, 1845, when PEEL pro
posed to increase the national endowments
of the Boman Catholic College of May
nouth, which GLADSTOIN.:E'S book had op
posed. Late in 1840 the present Earl of
Derby resigned the Seal of the Colonial
Office, rather than comply with PEEL's
do sire to repeal the Corn
GrAns-roNE, then only 37 years old, suc
ceeded him, and beerime a Cabinet Minis
ter. This necessarily vacated his seat for
.NEWflit, and the Duke of Newcastle, a •
strong protectionist, successfully prevented
Lis re-election. In June, 1846, having re
pealed the taxes upon food, PEEL lost
office, and, of course, Mr. GLADSTONE and
his other colleagues retired with him.
There was a General Election in 1847, and
the University of Oxford, proud of her dis
tinguished son, returned Mr. GLADSTONE.
That gentleman's opinions, hoWever,
were gradually changing. In the new Par
liarn4,nt, University Reform and the repeal
of the Jewish civil disabilities - were dis
cussed, and received his support. It be
came evident that he was quitting the in
tolerant section of the Tory- party. In
1851, he Opposed the Ecclesiatical Titles
Bill, (directed against Cardinal lirisE3rAN
and a suitable complement of Lord Jon;`
RusSELL's saying that the ceremonials of
the Catholic Church were "the mummeries
of superstition,") declaring that such legisla
tion was unnecessary, and also savored of
religious persecution. In the spring of
1852, when the Earl of DErinv became Pre
mier, lie offered a scat in his Cabinet to Mr.
GLADSTONE, who declined it. In the sum
mer of 1852, he was re-elected byhis Oxford
friends, and, in the following November
made such an attack on Mr. DISRAELI'S
Budget that the Derby Ministry, out-voted,
Lad to resign. Then was formed the Coali
tion Ministry; of which the Earl of Al3Mt-
PS= Was head. In this, GLADSTOE held
the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and soon showed great knowledge °Mantic.
The Aberdeep or Coalition Ministry soon
broke up, and on its reconstruction by Lord
PALMERSTON, Mr. GLADSTONE continued
Finance Minister, but soon resigned, from
a disinclination to consent to Mr. Ron
, enla motion for a Committee of Inquiry
into the state of the army before Sebas
topol. He lent PALMERSTON a general
support, and, in 1858, when again solicited
to hold office under Lord DERBY, de
clined—chiefly, it was thought, through a
personal antipathy to Mr. DrsnaEmbut
consented to proceed, as Lord High Com
missioner Extraordinary, to adjust the
political differences in the lonian Islands.
Here, while - we leave him in a sort of
neutral situation, we' may parenthetically
mention that, notwithstanding the heavy
duties of his political career, Mr. GLAD
sToNE found or made time for a good deal
of authorship. His State and Church was
followed, in 1840, by Church Principles fol
lowed and their Results; a number of pamph
lets ; a Manual of . Common Prayers, from
the Church Liturgy ; Letters to Lord ABER
DEEN on misgovernment and cruel tyranny
in Naples (1850-52 ;) reprints of various
finance speeches ; and Homer awd the Ho
meric Age, published in 1858, in which he
contends that the Homeric- poems are strict
ly historical in their aim and character ;
that HOMER himself was not a myth ; that
there is a strong unity of authorship in the
Iwo great poems, and that in them can be
read the history, polities, ethics, and the
ology of the Homeric age—the theology, he
contends, very closely resembling that of
Christianity, particularly in the cere
monialS.
Mr. GLADSTONE returned from his lonian
mission in time to attack My. DISRAELI'S
Budget a second tiniethough he subse
quently adopted some of its articles.' In
June, 1859, the Derby ministry had to
quit office, and Lord PALMERSTON recon
structed his cabinet, again giving Mr. GLAD
STONE the office of Finance Minister, which
he still bolds.
In 1800, GiADSTONE carried through
Parliament the commercial treaty between
Franee and England, framed and nego
tiated : by RICHARD COBDEN, which, if it
has not accomplished all that its authors
and sponsors anticipated and promiSed, has
largely increased the trade bet Ween the
two countries. He has since abolished the
tax on paper, (which really was an un
justifiable tax on knowledge,) has reduced
the income tax, and the tax on life, fire,
and marine insurances, (which is a tax
upon prudence, to which no country should
he subject,) :and has repealed oppressive
duties on many articles of general consump
tion. The fact 'cannot he questioned that
he is an able and successful rtuancier
lie owes his Parliamentary influence to
his being one of the best public speakers in
England. lie is ready and fluent, his voice
is sonorous and musical, his command of
language very great, his readiness in reply
Only surpassed by the keenness of his sar
casm ; and there is a stateliness and finish
in the flow of his sentences which is seldom
met with in the present day. He has two
considerable defects : first, he does not know
how to tone down his manner. Whether
his Budget contain a proposal to change
the whole fiscal system, or to reduce a
single small tax, Mr. GLADSTONE thinks it
right, because it is Ms Budget, to bestow as
much time and elaboration on the small
as upon the stupendous project. He wi//
make a four or five hours' oration, in any
case, cunningly holding back to the very
last moment, so that his auditors must re
main and listen, the announcement of his
scheme. Second, Mr. GLADSTONE'S opinion
of Mr. GLADSTONE is so high, that to
question his policy or to criticise his lon
gunge is held, by himself, to be a terrible
crime. Hence, though stately, polished,
ornamental, and cold as a Corinthian
column, when holding " the House "
with his many-worded utterance, he
loses dignity and temper when. replied
to, however respectfully, and in his
fierceness, runs into personalities, some-
times more offensive than would be
considered allowable in the sanded parlor
of a beery debating club in one of the fifth
rate city taverns of London. In an assem
blage such as the House of - Commons, Mr.
GLADSTONE has miserably succeeded in
giving personal offence alike to friend and
foe. Iu s extra-bilious temperament is very
hostile to him. It is doubtful whether, on
this merely personal consideration, any
leading political party will ever consent to
act under him. On the other hand, the
bon7tomie of PALMERSTON, though he hits
heavily at times, serves him instead of com
manding genius and lofty eloquence. GLAD
STONE resembles PEEL in many things;
but PEEL either had a good temper or kept
himself strongly and constantly in a state
of self-control. The lowness of origin, too,
will probably work against GLADSTONE'S
being accepted as Premier. It operated
thus against ADDINGTOIc, CANNuito, and
PEEL.
Mr. GLADSTONE must have expected to
be rejected by the Univevity of Oxford.
.Originally chosen to represent the "Church
and State" intolerance of that learned body,
i t was evident that when he abandoned
t hat intolerance they would assure him
that, with all their love ; he must never
more be officer of theirs. He went in for
University Reform, and when he sought to
be elected, in July, 1859, the Marquis of
CHANDOS was started to oppose him, and
actually was in a minority of only
191 votes. This was a hint, at least.
After that he startled the cruntry by
declaring (a little beyond JOHN BRIGHT
- himself,) that every man in the British
Islands ought to have a vote for mem
bers of Parliament; and this was crowned
by a solemn opinion, held by many others,
but repudiated by the Oxonians, that
the revenues of the Church of Ire
land, large beyond all necessity or
prOportiOn, should be appropriated by the
Government, for secular purposes, allowing
sufficient to pay the clergy respectably. In
1826, Mr. CANNING, whose career in Ox-
ford has been brilliant, publicly stated that
his life-long ambition had been to sit in
Parliament as member for that University,
but that his opinions being in favor of Ca
tholic Emancipation, to which Oxford was
hostile, he had never dared to offer himself
as a candidate there, knowing that he must
be defeated. Three years later, when PEEL
had to decide between a Civil War in Ire-
land and the granting of Catholic Emanci
pation, he proposed the latter, resigned his
seat for Oxford University, was re-proposed
by the liberal iiarty there, was beaten by
the late Sir PZERRT HARVY INGLIS
and
submitted _to tno arm
ment-hy buying a seat for Westbury from
Sir 'MANASSEH IaGrES, who then owned
that borough.
As a member ought to represent the
Opinions of his constituents, we may de
dare Mr. GLADSTONE Out of place at Ox
ford, because he has taken up ultra-liberal
opinions, will be acceptable in Lancashire,
where such opinions are not held as Jacob
inical, revolutionary, and irreligious. It
is worthy of notice, at the same time, that
south Lancashire when it sent him, a
liberal, to Parliament, has shackled him
- with a couple of tory colleagues. Mr.
GLADSTONE returns to Parliament not
stronger, nor Much weaker in position than
It -was an honor for a scholarly
wen to represent his Alma Mater—rather
more so than to come in as "odd man" in
a triangular duel for South Lancashire. In
his new position his avowal of liberal senti
ments will riot he so much out of place as
it was when he represented Oxford. He
May become Prime Minister of England,
but we doubt whether the Aristocracy will
accept him, (they killed CANNING and
sneered at PEEL, in that capaci
ty,) and we fear that the People,
only one in every seven of whom can vote
at Parliamentary elections, are not strong
enough to place him at the helm. - w e
grant the truth of much that has been said
in his favor, but still retain the belief that
GLADSTONE, as Premier, would be as
hostile to the United States as Lord DERBY
himself. Who can forget his post-prandial
Newcastle oration, in•'hich he saki that
JEFFERSON DAVIS had "built up the South
WO a mighty empirer* and that "the
North was fighting only for conquest,
wliile the South battled for freedom and
independence?" These words, at once in
cautious and inimical, will ever be remem
bered here against Mr. GLADSTONE, His
elevation to supreme power would be the
subject of our regret, ware it not that,
minding our own business, as a people, we
are above apprehension from foreign en
mity, whether it comes from England or
France ; by the ambition or at the caprice
of Emperor or politician, C2ESAIt or SE
JAN lig.
THE INTERNAL REVENUE RECEIPTS
The receipts from internal revenue, on
the 2d instant, reached the enormous sum
of $2,900,000. They are reported to be
constantly increasing, and will doubtless
much exceed the estimates which have
heretofore been made. The resources of
our country, although attested over and
over again by census returns, by assessors'
reports, by the volume of business, by the
incomes of our citizens, and by manifold
tangible evidences of prosperity, are still
but vaguely realized by many intelligent
men. We have so suddenly attained the
financial, political, and military rank of a
first-class power, that it is not easy to be
convinced that we aro superior, in all that
con stit utes real greatness, to historic empires
which acquired their present status only by
the slow growth and enhancement of a
thousand years. Yet such is, nevertheless,
the fact; and it is no wild dream to look
forward to a period when, in power, popu
lation, and wealth, we will as much exceed
Great Britain or France as they exceeded
us at the commencement of the present cen
tury. The popular instinct which clung to
the Union as the ark of salvation, was doubly
justified by a regard for present security
and future greatness. It is folly to pre
tend that this nation can be ruined by
the War Debt, or that its ability to
meet its obligations is doubtful. All that
is needed is the dominance of a loyal,
cheerful, resolute spirit, and wise states
manship. Welave dangers to encounter,
vexatious questions to adjust, great pro
blems to solve, abuses to reforth ; and we
cannot expect in a month or a year to
heal all the wounds of a terrible war. We
have savage Indians to subdue, a rebellious
and revengeful feeling in the South to con
quer, a noble scheme of Emancipation to
perfect, and a great financial adjustment to
complete. But we believe our power and
capacity are fully equal to our responsibili
ties. In our former history, every genera
tion has successfully encountered its pecu
liar trials, and the weight thrown on our
shoulders is not much, if any, greater, rela
tively, than that which was borne by the
early colonists or the heroes of the Revolu
tion. The developed man easily performs
tasks that would be impossible to the child.
If we make Faith, Hope, Justice, Liberty,
and Wisdom our guiding stars, we will
progress onward and upward, despite pre
sent embarrassments, so rapidly that our
descendants will smile at the folly of those
who now distrust the future.
HONEDIEIVIS TO THE HEROIC DEAD.
Fancy and invention are being taxed to
devise monumental memorials of our " fallen
braves." It is a subject which most assu
redly should attract the attention of the pub
lic, but the majority of the plans proposed
are so grand and extensive as to defeat their
own aims. If national enthusiasm could
ensure the completion of any monument, it
might have been confidently expected to
have speedily finished a monument to the
memory of WASHINOTON, the corner-stone
of which was laid by the honored hand of
LA kATETTE ; yet such a structure was ini
tiated in 1824, and remains still, incomplete.
But it-has been proved that monuments are
out of harmony with our utilitarian age and
people, and when the first burst of popular
enthusiasm that found expression in laying
the foundation has passed, the structure is
allowed to languish, and is finally forgotten.
The important conflicts of the recent war
should, and doubtlessly will be, worthily
memorialized. A battle-field would be
most fittingly illustrated by a shaft, or
other architectural embellishment; but
past experience should teach us what the
fixture will certainly repeat, that it is abso
lutely useless to invent and propose a mul
titude of monuments for single individuals,
or even for whole classes of the sacred vic
tims of our war.
A simple mural decoration, or tasteful
entablature placed in a church, city hall,
or, in a public square or park, could be
immediately accomplished, arid the honor
of the dead and dignity of the living be
better maintained than by some stupendous
undertaking which nullifies the intention
by the very magnificence of the plan, and
the necessity of deferring its execution.
In some such simple fashion every church,
society, guild, or even city and State could
engrave its "roll of honor" in lasting cha
racters, and present the tribute of its grati
tude with all the grace of speedy recogni
tion, ensuring itself at the same time from
the disgrace of future neglect. In the hot
haste with which events crowd upon us in
this "our day and generation" we are al
lowed but little leisure, even where the will
is strong, to linger for a single moment,
“To gather up the scattered ashes into his-
tory's golden urn.”
Any unusually expensive monuments
should assume the form of public benefac
tions, as being in direct harmony with the
spirit of our people and the tendency of our
national institutions. The memory of the
great men, the heroes of a war for liberty
and truth, could not be more fittingly em
balmed than by making their names the
crowning glory of asylums for soldiers dis
abled in the same cause, or colleges for the
orphans and descendants of men who have
died in the service of their country. Such
structures would- more worthily preserve
their memories, and more truly illustrate
the spirit in which they worked and suf
fered than any pile of masonry, that cannot
be finished until their names belong to the
deeds of the past, and the completion of
which will be subjected to all the unforeseen
fluctuations of a public sentiment prone to
momentary excitation. '
We are a grateful and generous people,
but we are not "effusive" in manner, nor
fond of commemorative labors. Pbiladd
phia most gladly and persistently fed and
assisted every soldier that went through her
city to the defence of his country, and ex
tended the same cheering welcome to the
returning victors; but we much doubt if a
moiety of the same zeal could be excited for
a monumental design to illustrate at the
same time the glory of the fallen and the
gratitude of the survivors.
/ ueser ves no
severer stricture, that perfect peace was
inaugurated by the surrender of General
LEE, has received a terrible refutation by
subsequent events. Publie feeling, as well
as legal reasoning, has supported the mili
tary trial of the conspirators, and accepted
the justice of their fate, notwithstanding all
the quibbles raised by the disaffected, or
the varied attempts to seduce popular senti
ment from the righteous indignation which
it so fully and freely expressed. The re
cent additional proof that gives the lie to
these assumptions of an established peace, is
the frequent evidences of embittered feeling
in the South, and the curiously illustrative
fact that the Captain of the pirate Shenan
doah, cruising in distant seas and destroy
ing wboie fleets of defenceless whaling ves
sels, utterly refuses to believe the fact, or
accept the plea, that the rebellion is ended,
or that LEE has surrendered; while he as
sumes his share of that most disgraceful
deed of the disgraced Confederacy—the
murder of the President.
CARNIVAL AT CAVE. 4.117.—AS WC have before
mentioned, the Bal Masque and Carnival takes
place at Congress Hall, Cape Island, on the
evening of Tuesday, August Bth. Mr. Mark
Hassler, under Whose. charge the musical de
partment has been placed, has spared neither
trouble or expense to Secure the best pewterer
ers Of the day. The hotel and lawn are to be
brilliantly illuminated, and everything possi
ble - will be done ;to secure the comfort and
Pleasure of the guests. A visit to Cape May
at any time is delightful, but upon this occa
sion, any one will be doubly repaid who may
100 fit to wend his way thither.
CHESTNUT-STREET THICATRE.—The third mat
inee of a Arrah na Pogue? will be given this
afternoon, affording a fine chance for fbmilies
and children to see this beautiful Irian Urania.
THE PRE".--PHILA_DELPIIIA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5,186 b:
In the North people talk of forests, woods,
and timber-lands. For instance, the great
unbroken, tree-covered districts of Northern
New York now, or of Pennsylvania a hundred
ealS ago, male up of mixed woods, of every
description and value, are the forests; while
these, broken up into small lots and attached
to separate farms, like those of Pennsylvania
now, are the woods ; and the timberlands are
the districts growing only particular kinds of
trees, valuable for building or cabinet pur
poses, like the pine kiwis of Maine and the
oak lands of Michigan. , But in Texas every
piece of wood-covered ground, whether pine,
sycamore, el - press; postoak, or blackjack (all
worthless for lumber, save the drst,) is timber,
atcoi ding to the dialed, of the natives. And
it is nothing strange to hear a settler talk
about building in the tuber, and yet to find
his teams drawing the very lumber with which
beds building from a mill upon a real timber
lot fifty miles away. Tit fact, though timber
is on every man's tongue, it is Seldom upon
his land ; and however many acres he may
talk of owning, he is attre, ninety-nine times
in the hundred, to have M buy his lumber and
draw it a great distend!, when he comes to
build. I
There is very little building lumber in tho
State excepting pine ; atd its pine lands are
BO few and far apart thai single pineries often
supply 'building inaterit4 fora circle of a him
Bred miles around them.
Eastern Texas has its pine lands, hfontgo
inery county a few mills, and Bastrop large
pineries. From these, !lads are radiating in
every direction, upon which the crack of the
lumbermanis whip and tie tinkle of his bells
are never silent. To al Northern man the
thought that, if he desims a frame house, he
must haul every board to be put into it fifty
or a hundred miles by oxtearn, is, in itself, al
most an embargo upon settlement, though the
lands were as fertile as the Nile and as flowery
as Eden. To one who, "athome," has been W.
customed to cut down the tree, load the logs,
draw them to the mill, it for the cawing,
and take home his load l of boards, all in the
same day, it looks a- little slow, and slightly
expensive to find that, though surrounded
with wood, there is not a timber tree to cut
and that the mill where the boards (plank, as
they call everything from a half up to three
inches) are to be bought is a hundred miles
away. But all he has to do to shame away his
fears is to ride down to the pinery, stake his
pony by the side of some lumberman's mule a
few times, help him eat his corn-bread and ha•
eon for a few meals, and sleep under his wagon
a few nights, and he will learn how the thing
is done, and go back wenderhiff that he ever
cared a straw for it. Serious as it looks to a
Northerner, to an old Texan it is "no ac
count;" and he will stick down his stakes, and
begin to build his "cow lots" without ever
thinking to inquire how far he must draw the
"plank >, that are to keep the babies warm.
TRU NILW SII.TTLIta
at first lives in his wagon, spreads a tent,ir
knocks up a little log cabin, out of cedar logs,
post-oak buts, or black-jack poles, "to do
him" while he "gets a start and •
GETTING A START
consists in building his Cattle-pens, putting up
a horse-lot, digging out a pig-trOUgh, and fenc
ing off a cabbage-patch. These done, he is
ready to go ahead. And going ahead, depends
very much upon who he is, what he is going to
do, and where he is going to do it. If he is a
long, lank, yellow-haired, lazy loafer, from
the barrens of Arkansas, going ahead with his
Means, setting down contented as he is, with
out further inquiry whether there is good soil
below or fine skies above him; he is going to
keep about him a half dozen dog-frames and
about as many hog-shadows, With which to
amuse his tow.headed, dirty-faced young ones,
and as a daily practice for his Sunburnt wife,•
In such spare licks, pelts and thumps as the
dozen tow-heads don't contrive to monopolize
to themselves. He is• going to 'ride a knock
kneed pony over to the grocery twice a week
for a lounge or aft - ht.—now and then shoot such
venturesome rabbits as are inquisitive enough
to look through the Cabbage-pateh fence—and
finally take the world lazy, if not dasy, while his
helpmate, poor soul, is left to lide the garden,
whip the children, and put things to rights in
a general way. He has no use forttlumber. A
window cut through the logs, and a mud chim
ney, topped out with a barrel, teausforms his
first settlement cabin into a house quite "good
enough 3" and it will never bS changed tiil
land in his neighborhood becomes valuable,
and a different character buys out and pulls
down his improvements, while he moves on to
the border and does the same thing over again.
But, if the new settler should chance to
be a stock-grower,'-whose object is, not to
farm, but to raise stock, the little cabin will
hardly be built before behind it will be
grouped a half dozen high, heavy, well-built
cattle yards, of all sizes, from the little pen to
catch in up to the great yard to herd in, built
of heavy oak or cedar, and well staked and
ridered. And around it will begin to gather
the sleek and frolicsome colts, the wide-horned
speckled cattle, and the panting, fleecy flocks,
froin which his 'Money is to be coined. All
day his horse is under the saddle, or staked
hard by the cabin, while through the dews of
morning and shades of evening he is riding
amongst the herds ; but lying about, lounging,
or (if a Yankee) reading, or whittling through
the heat of the day. He may move his ranch
another year to better grass or purer water,
and having little to build for, usually lives ae
he began, and keeps to hiseabin."
But, if he. chance to be a farmer or planter,
Heide covered with cotton, corn, or grain
spring, as if by magic, into life around his
little cabin, and a year or two - finds their own
er preparing to build " the frame house," and
begin to live like old times again. By that
time he has seen how the thing is done, and
learned to take it easy. He gathers flat stones
for his chimneys, burns his °int lime upon a
log heap, and when he is ready
he rides into the prairie, gathers up ten or
twelve "steers" (dken are not learce, where it
costsabsolutely nothing eithe to summer or
winteethem, and where a comae of cows in a
few Oars, increase to a herd, and Nature does
all tor them but to put the Owner's brand
upon their hips and mark in their ears,) then
yokes and necks them in patis (necking eon•
fines them more loosely together when un
soked,) and hitches them to the big wagon.
If the leaders and hub oxen era well broke, it
matters but little how wild the rest of the
string may be; they can be drisien between the
four "steadies," and by. the time they get to
the mill, they are all under the - whip, and
ready for the load.
The team being ready for a start, under the
big wagon cover are packed the supplies and
necessities for the trip, consisting of a bag of
meal, a filch of bacon, a box of coffee, a gun, a
frying pan, and a tin cup, for the pantry and
kitchen arrangements ; a couple of blankets,
to put the bed-room in order; raw-hide hob
bles, with which to fetter the forelegs of each
ox when turned out at night (and so compel
him to do fashionably line walking if he hap-'
pens to turn towards home,) a few bushels of
corn, with which "to grain the pony" and
coax the cattle to linger around the camping
grounds ; a bucket of tar, to keep the wheels
from grumbling; an extra chain or two, a
spare rope, a few nails, an axe, as auger, and
a hammer, in case of accidents, And, thus
prepared for a week, or a month, as the ease
may be, the driver mounts his pony, swings
his long whip around his head, and with the
familiar "whoa-o-whoa ; come ere, Brindle,"
cracks up his leaders, brings "the string" into
line, hits the "wild ones" an extra lick or two
as a word of caution, and is off for the saw-
Mill. Whenever night comes, and wherever it
finds hint (so that river, creek, or ' pond
is near enough for water,) he unhitches
and hobbles his oxen, stakes out his
pony, builds a fire, stirs up his meal and
water and bakes a "dodger," fries a slice of
bacon, boils a cup of coffee, sits down upon his
wagon tongue and eats a better supper (if
ci the proof of the pudding is in the eating")
than the Continental has Cooked for a year.
Supper being done, and the pony "staked
over" and grained, he whistles up his dogs,
spreads his blankets, and, either in or under
the wagon, with his saddlh, turned pillow,
sleeps and dreams—perhaps of home, perhaps
of.heaven. If he Is honest and earnest, tic-is a
happy man. And there are thousands such
thus quietly sleeping on the prairies to-night.
Yobis pax adim,pliater."
r ey,ticioa of the first' "
The next dmis a
to And
what matters it whethevii..., anti is a hundred
miles away or only twenty) whether the trip
is a Week or a Month' Kan and home are
boarded as cheap as at home. The prairie
still supplies the oxen. If an a-sle, spoke,
or felloe breaks, it is but a day's halt—the cut
ting of an oak, and, with hatchet and augers
fitting another in its place.
In reality, the whole trip is but a matter of
time; and that is of no great account where it
is a cheap hand that drives the team. Or, if it
be the owner himself, ten to one he would not
be at work were lie at home.
There are very many men who love a camp
ing life and all its wild and 'easy ways well
enough to drive their own lumber and cotton
teams, who never touch either plough or hoe
in the fields. In MO lumber (pine) cost at the
mills from fifteen dollars to thirty dollars per
thousand feet, and a goodteam will draw from
two to four thousand per load.
ST. LtirES.
Alf AVFECTINO INCIDaNT.—VITheII the 40th
Migsouri arrived on the Steamer Olive - Branch,
a woman, with joy sparkling in her eyes,
hurried on board. With a buoyant step and a
palpitating heart, she scanned the different
companies drawn up on the deck. " Where is
Company KW she eagerly inquired. " Over
there," replied a soldier, pointing in the di
rection of Company K. The woman hastened
to the spot, and, passing rapidly in front of
the sunburnt faces of the men, gazed at each
with a keen, penetrating glance. She was
looking for her husband, who had written to
her from Montgomery Alabama, that the regi
ment would start forhome on the following
day, and that in a short three he would be with
her. Once more she passed along tiro line,
scanning the faces with a closer scrutiny, but
tidi e d to dud the one she sought. At length
she timidly addressed one or tile waters ;
this Company ICI" "Yes." "I am looking for
my husband—where is het" "What is his
name l" "Walker." "Oh, he fell overboard
and was drowned in the Alabama river." The
poor woman clasped her hands over her face,
and, without saying another word, passed
slowly from the boat back to the shore, seem
ing to walk without the use of her eyes. lier
heart was too full for utterance, and the great
agony that had come so suddenly upon her
sealed her lips and checked the fountain of her
tears ; but the men of irownerve who sar her
and knew the cause of her sorrow, wept like
oildren,---dliaeouri Democrat, lat fast. -•:
TEXAS PAPERS—No. 4.
TUB TIMM.
TO DRAW IRE lanigEß,
PASSENGER RAILWAY TRIPS-NO. XI.
HADDINGTON, WEST PHILADELPHIA.
A ROLLING COUNTRY AND BEAU
T/FUL SCENERY.
ASYLUMS FOR THE INSANE.
LANDMARKS OF WILLIAM PENN.
IMMENSE IMPROVEMENTS PROJECTED
TIM RAILROAD
THE "ONE-LEGGED HOSPITAL."
SURD ORPHAN ASYLUM.
DISTANT VIEW OF WOODBURY, N.J
BY "CHIPS."
We present to-day a brief sketch of some of
the scenes west of the Schuylkill, that form a
graphic and lively panorama of Nature, to the
view of the observant passenger, on the rail
way that leads to Iladdington. Hero, lot us re
mark, that Haddington is quite an interesting
village, located amid a section of country rich
in the magnificent gifts of nature. It is located
a short distance northwest of the terminus of
the railway, at Vine and Sixty-fifth streets,
or, at least, where these streets will intersect,
as SOOLI as they are opened and dedicated to
public use. Haddington was founded by an
energetic Englishman, named Thomas Good
win, who named it such in honor of his native
place in old England. It can boast of a public
school-house of small dimensions, of no
beauty whatever, and far behind the public
spirit of the age.
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There is an immense business done on the
Market-street Railroad. So constant is the
use made of the cars, that many of them are
rickety, and creak at every bounce they make
over the uneven track. There is nothing
pleasant in riding on this road, because of the
continuous passing and repassing of all kinds
of carriages, which keep the dust in motion.
On the afternoon, we entered ono of the cars,
there were a number of passengers who de
sired t o reach the steam railroad depot - west
of the bridge in time to take the four o'clock
train. About - fifteen minutes before this time,
the track became obstructed by a wagon
breaking down, near the arch-way under the
Pennsylvania Railroad, Just east of the per
manent bridge. The horse-car stopped; the
driver tied his reins around the brake, and
the conductor pedalized to the obstruction,
and there he stood without any effort
to have the broken-down wagon removed. He
appeared to have all the patience of a modern
Job. The passengers in the car became appre
hensive that they would not meet the train, and
were thus competled, men, women, and chil
dren, with their baggage, to walk the re
mainder of the way. It is well they did or
they would have missed the train. Ent the in
fliction of riding on the Market-street road
proper is more than amply repaid by a trip on
the track from the depot to Haddington. On
this part of the road, the passenger may pre
pare for agreeable scenes of art and nature.
The car starts but the Haverford road, and in
a short time the
ASYLUM FOR THE INSANE
will attract the attention. It extends to the
West Chester road, the main or only entrance
through its massive stone walls being on the
Haverford thoroughfare. The interior may
be considered a series of most charming na
tural pictures—deep-shaded woods, handsome
flowers, and plenty of grass plots, with walks
for the accommodation of the unfortunate pa
tients. To the north of Os place will lee seen a
number of handsome and commodious cot
tage-houses, with side, front, and back gar
dens, now rejoicing in luxurious foliage and
flowers of summer. A line large meadow and
mill-creek, quite an extensive stream, bound
the western lines of the Asylum grounds.
Then comes the institution appropriated to
insane male persons. Its walls extend to
Fiftieth street, upon • which thoroughfare is
the main entrance. The buildings in the in
terior face the westward, and a very pretty
view or them may be bed from a more distant
point on the road, upon the return-trip. The
ground here has a great elevation above the
surface of the Schuylkill; the air is pure and
wholesome, and fogs or mists seldom reach
this altitude.
THE COLORED SHELTER
Standing isolated, on an elevated site, is a
yew pretty brick building, known as the " CO'
bored Shelter." Seine years since this instlf-m---,
tion was located at Thirteenth and 1(1110W
streets, but it was destroyed by rioters, who
defied all law and order. Theythreatened the
fire department With annihilation it any at
tempt IMP. made to o:KringuiSh the flames of
the Colored Orphans , Rome. There was one
brave company, however, that despite the
threats went into service, and maintained its
efficiency, fothough the members had to
stem a tremendous current of desperate
riotere• That company was the " Good Will,"
noir one or the strongest, best organized, fa
vorably received, midmost popular companies
in the United States. Manfully did the mem
bers thereof stand up for and sustain the prin
ciples of their organization ; for which they
were presented with a " testimonial of es
teem," made under the supervision of a num
ber of the most refined and intelligent mem
bers of the commuipy. The Colored Shelter,
as it now stands, is a monument to the power
of the public who advocate peace, law, order,
and humanity. It is one of the humane insti
tutions so purely characteristic of the people
of Philadelphia.
AN OLD MILL
Among the objects of attraction, that carries
the mind back to days long gone by, is the old
stone mill erected by Mr. Emanuel Ayres, who
in former days was one of the most enterpris
ing businesss men of Philadelphia. It is lo
cated on Mill Creek, a stream that courses its
way over a space between the two asylums.
The country here is picturesque.
NORTHERN HONE FOR CATHOLIC ORPHANS
Not far distant, the handsome building
erected by means of the charity fund of the
Catholic Church, and appropriated to orphans
belonging to that denomination, will attract
some attention. It is a neat building, and
made the more comfortable by tree shades and
fragrant flowers. In this section win be seen
On rising ground a cluster of cottage dwel
lings, built in the French style, of stone,
brick, and wood. These buildings were erect
ed last season, thus giving evidence of private
improvements extending in this section of
the city. Truly may it be said that westward
the star of Philadelphia enterprise takes its
way. In a few years this healthful section of
our city will surpass in architectural orna
ment any city in the world, not excepting
Paris or London.
Aline, large, brick dwelling-honse was ereet
ed a few years since on ground directly on the
line of Vine street. This structure will have
to be removed before the thoroughfare can be
opened, as originally intended. The car passes
to the left of this house from the Haverford
road, and reaches Vine street, and then pro
ceeds westward to the terminus. Before leav
ing the road we may remark that William
Penn, in company with his wife, travelled
over this section and laid out the Haverford
road. A short distance west of the lane into
which the car turns, in order to reach Vine
street, may be found the
LANDMARKS OP WILLIAM PENN
A mile-stone planted by the founder of the
State still remains in its original place. It
bear his coat of arms, a shield and three balls.
Nearly a mile farther on is a rock unm , which,
Penn. ANN;i r, - ;: in e eat tbemdin
tradition say%
Ilex while lat vice road. is commemorative of
1.9 A Vent, it is called Penn , s Rock to this day.
These landmarks are probably but little
known to the people generally.
VINE STREET VESPER.
As the car nicely turns into Vine street, from
the Haverford Read, a Seemingly new country
opens out to view. Hpen the right is an
Im
mense plateau, containing, it is said, a heavy
layer of the finest brick-clay in the State. It
is a well-established fact, that the prettiest red
bricks are made of material found in great
abundance in this section. This subsoil
once removed, the area would be better
adapted to building purposes, Here we see
at one broad, long glance, enough material to
build quite an extensive city of bricks and
mortar. From this plateau the grade is heavy
on the descent, but to - rise again to a •still'
higher point on a different kind of soil, con•
silting of yellow loam, indicating gravel at no
very great depth. The surface is rich in fields
of waving corn. Farther on we Cross 13.10ekley
avenue, a straight roadway, one hundred feet
wide, extending from the Haverford to the
Westchester road. At this point may be seen,
at a short distance oft, the
BURD ORPHANS' ASYLUM,
Slitlate on the batik of Cobb's Creek. Its spire's
loom up from the deep, thick - foliage of forest
trees. In this section private improvemcntS
of the most extensive character are projected
by a gentleman belonging . to an enter
prising business firm in this city. lie has
recently purchased one hundred acres of
the virgin soil, and intends to have
it surveyed and divided into building
lots. The ground is much more elevated here
than at any other point we have passed. The
usle is still upward until We much the stop-
ping place, a sort of shed, erected at Sixty
fifth street. Here the country is more rolling,
and the scenes enchanting to the lovers of
i,
,ature. It would amply repay a 1 714 to
his section, If merely to sit on it rail fence
eneath the shady spreading branches of a
roe, and thus enjoy the pure delightful air,
ragrunt with the perfume of health, and to
enternplate the beautiful pictures in the
..and scene of nature that spreads beford the
Ision to the extent of many MIMS.
A PUBLIC SCHOOL-ROUSH.
Located on the side of a country road, be
, atb. a few old trees, may be seen a yellow,
-moons ormod 13 SU peen 'Mailmen linto-ndnoz
house. It appears to he in a somewhat (Inapt.
e d i t" .
de C it uOollrd souvehubrleinceacut;h:Vitthho:
With so much spare territory, and such splen
taste
did sites as here abound on every hand, there
a u n p (i on a' t s h
ought to he erected a handsome edifice, with
flower-gardens and other works of art, to en
gage the attention of the rising generation.
One thing is certain, that every person who
lives in this section (we wove going to say
ethereal region,) are healthy-leek:hag. The
joyous boys and girls have rosy cheeks, the
result of plain, wholesome living, free air, and
a pure atmosphere.
SCENKS AND IMPLECTIONS
As we 'sat on a rail admiring, from this Ole
'rated spot, the near and distant scenes, a
sturdy old gentleman chanced to pass along.
We entered fatniliarly into conversation, and
he pointed out to us the several objects that
made up parts of the wide-spread panorama
before us. lTe informed us that the near tho
roughfare was the Merlon road, leading di
rectly to the Falls of Schuylkill, and that
Lansdown avenue, also near us, ran straight
to licatonville, We were on what will proba
bly soon become Sixty-fifth street. Tho ground
here must be nearly three hundred feet above
the level of the Schuylkill. Facing eastward.
the Nestonville depot can be seen to the left,
while to the distant right the ancient town
of Woodbury, N. J., can be plainly observed
with the naked eye! Gloucester Point • and
Red Bank, N. J., were also objects of-vision,
but partly hidden by dense masses Of wood
lands that dotted and beautified the fore
ground of the picture. The Girard College
building occupied a conspicuous place iii the
view. Its white columns and heavy entabbi s
tare could be plainly seen, so clear was
the atmosphere. This part of the city
is very healthy. Fever and agile are en
tirely to to the inhabitants. The
morning mists may be seen in the low, distant.
vales ; but here the sun . sheds his earliest
golden beams. A short distance to the west of_
this spot are never-failing sparkling springs;
where the water gushes forth in all its natural.
purity and coolness, and meanders through
woodlands and line meadow grounds, :What a
splendid place would this section be for the
contemplated Suldiers'H9me! Here there are
many acres of country land, fanned at al
times by, the pure, . healthful breezes o
heaven; here there is scope enough for the
light er work of agriculture, in which so many
soldiers would delight to pass their time.
ONE-LEGGED HOSPITAL
A short distance from this beautiful chosen
spot of nature is the old hotel built for the
Butchers' and Drovers' Association. It was
not eligible for such business, and therefore
was abandoned. Until recently it was used as
a hospital, where wounded soldiers had their
limbs amputated ; and from the fact that there
were so many of the patients who lost a leg,
the place was known among them as the
one-legged hospital. Its uses for this purpose,
thank Providence and dry powder, are at an
end. The building is located at the base of a
gently sloping hill.
The car starts from the front of the above
now tenantless hospital, and passing the Dome
for Friendless Children, soon reaches Logan
or Forty-first street, where a change of cars
isneeeSSary. From this point the passenger
may reach` the eastern emi of Market Street
Before approaching, the Permanent Bridge, the
Military Institute of the patriotic Professor
Saunders will be seen beneath the shade of sur
rounding trees. Near the bridge, the great
tunnel for the - Pennsylvania railroad will at
tract attention. The workmen are almost
ready to delve in beneath the paved part of
Market street, over which cars and loaded
wagons, carriages, and drays are passing and
repassing every moment in the clay.
In conclusion, we are prepared' to say that
the ride on the Illaddington part of the road
Was decidedly interesting. Tripe for pleasure,
during pleasant times, as well as for mere intr.
poses of business, may be made on this track.
It might be useful to the public, generally, if
the city councilmen should visit the rural sec
tions in a body, for then they might form some
idea of the wants of the people, and thus pro
gress with public improvements, or, at least,
keep pace with private ones.
CITY ITEM'S.
CLOTHING FOR RETURNED SOLDIERS: NOW
that. thousands of returned soldiers are
Changing {their military for civil apparel, we
cannot do them a greater service than in di
recting them to the celebrated old Clothing
Establishment of Messrs. C. Somers & Son, No,
655 Chestnut street; under Jayne's Hall. Their
stock is one of the finest and most extensive
in the city, and their uniform custom of selling
suits to soldiers, at the lowest prices, is most
commendable.
GENTLEICEP/13 FURNISHING Goons.—Mr.Georgoe
n
Grant, 610 Chestnut, street, has a handsome s
sortment of novelties in Shirting p r i •- 1 oeau
tiful Spring Cravats, Summer
and goods especiall for travelling.
i
ills celebrated eMedal” Shirt, in - vented
by Mr. Joh - ." Taggart, is unequalled by any
°thaw An the world.
HOTHOUSE GRAPES, APRICOTS, CONFECTIONS,
&c.—The most tempting - stock in this city, at
A. L. Vansant , s, Ninth and Chestnut. Roasted
Almonds, Chocolates, and a hundred other de
licious things, adapted fig the season, can fIOW
be had at his counters.
TEE BEST FITTING SHIRT 011. THE AGE IS " The
Improved Pattern ShW," made by John C.
Lrrison, at the old stffd, Nos. 1 and 3 North
Sixth street. Work done by hand in the best
manner, and warranted to give satisfaction.
His stock of Gentlemen's Furniqhing Goods
cannot be surpassed. Prices, naodorate.
THE "CHINESE SUN HAT," sold by. Wood &
CARY, 725 Chestnut street, is really indispen
sable to every lady about leaving the City.
Their entire stock of Straw and Fancy Goods
is now selling off at much below cost.
VISITORS TO THE SBA-SHORE should provide
themselves with BATHING DIUMBES from
JOHN C. AR.F.ISON 9 8,
Nos. 1 and 3 North Sixth street.
Fen Own DoLLAn.—All the time spent in
tying and untying, and half the silk in the tie
and scarf, are saved by the use of flshleman's
patent cravat holder. Price, one dollar each,
wholesale and retail, at 701 Chestnut street.
Also, gentlemen's furnishing goods-large as
sortment.
Tun Guano GRANT BALL AT SARATOGA.—A
New York "Jenkins"goes off the handle in
describing the dresses of tile ladies who were
present at the recent grand ball given to Gen.
Grant at Saratoga. By way of a "specimen
brick," "Miss Y—g, of New Vi'ork, in. white
tulle, long train elaborately putted and trim
med with scarlet silk, point lace shawl, coral
and diamond ornaments) ) We do not know
whether the train worn by Miss Y. deserved
"pulling," but we do know that there cannot
be too much said concerning the merits of the
suits for gentlemen and youths, made at the
Brown Stone Clothing Hall of RooWlin & Wil
son, Nos. 603 and 605 Chestnut street, above
Sixth.
STRAIGHT to the zenith of the firmament of
Fashion—even as a star might go up from the
horizon to the meridian—Phalon , s "Night-
Blooming Cereus G has ascended in three short
years, leaving behind it all the. lessor lights,
foreign and domestic, and establishing its pre
eminence over all the perfumes of the day.
Sold everywhere.
IMFDRITY OF THE BLOOD is the primary cause
of most Skin Diseases, although there are
eases where very repulsive forms of this OM
plaint arise from obstructions of the pores of
.the skin, checking perspiration, causing an
intolerable itching, and terminating in an
eruption of Pimples, Pustules, ltingworm,
Tetter, Salt Rheum, &e. For all these affec
tions, Dr. Jayne's Alterative is an efficient
remedy, cleansing the blood of all impurities,
and absorbing the gross particles which ob
struct the small perspiratory duets. By its
action on the circulation it drives all Scrof.u
-_ sato
loos diseases from the system. ..
junctions, and im
part
perfruLne• its I , r.
ring glow to the complexion. Pre-
O r tify at No. 242 Chestnut street. au-St
SANBURG PORT WIRE.—Our druggists have
just received a number of cases more of that
most excellent and harmless beverage, Spoor's
Sumburg Port Wine. Mr. Speer knows how to
keep wine pure, and, of course, is worthy of
public patronage. This wine has already be-
come very popular, and seems to lie gaining
new friends dailv.—Pornand Crouviel%
MCCLAIN'B COCOANUT OIL AND QUINCE. SEED.
Cocoanut Oil and Quince Seed. It will re-
Cocoanut Oil and Quince Seed. store, dar-
Cocoanut Oil and Quince Seed, ken and
cocoanut Oil and Quince Seed, invigorate
Cocoanut 011 and Quinee Seed, the hair.
Cocoanut Oil and Quince Seed.
It will entirely eradicate dandruff.
It will give the hair a beautiful darligrowth.
It will remove all cutaneous diseases from
the scalp.
It will positively stop the hair from falling.
It will strengthen the fibrous roots of the
hair.
It will not soil hat or bonnet lining.
It is splendid for curlingor frizzing the hair:
It is highly recommended by experienced
physicians. -
It has proved a success for twenty years.
It has never failed to give s:.‘tii4metion.
It is prepared at SU N. street, above
Vine.
FOR. ALL maladies of the Eye, Ear, Throat,
Lungs, and for Catarrah, Consult Dr. Von
Moselutriker, 1027 Walnut street.
AFRAID TO LATTGIL — LiaIIiCS sometimes re
press their laughter to avoid revcaNng the
discoloration and imperfection of their teeth.
Fair ones, we would advise you to try the fra.
grant SoznflOnt. It will remove, at once, all
impurities, arrest the progress of decay, and
whiten such parts as have already became
black by ,leefty, anti I,,:t_ave the breath as fra
grant as a rose. aukaitli4
THROAT, Lung diseases, Catarrak, Deafness,
Blindness, treated most successfully by Dr.
Von Mosehzriker, 11127 Walnut street.
NEW AND SECOND-NAND PIANOS FOR RENT,
and portion of rent applied to porella9o,
Also, new and elegant pianos for sale on
accommodating team, GOULD,
jylboan Seventh and Chestnut,
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
The gold premium was comparatively steady
yesterday, the highest point it reaelled being
144!/ 2 , and the lowest AV, at which it closed.
The stock market was moderately active,
hut priers were generally less firm. Govern
ment loans were more freely offered, and the
five-tw entys declined 34, selling at 105%. The
lABls were steadyat 10614 In State loans there
was nothing said. City sixes sold to a fair ex
tent at Mk for the new. and B 9 for the old—the
latter being a decline of 1. 1 .4. There PM Tory
little movement hi company bonds, the only
sale being North Pennsylvania sixes at 84!4.
Some West Chester sevens sold at 100. The share
list was devoid of spirit, except for Reading,
which was In active demand, and closed at
033—an advance of X. Pe,nnsyl van in Ihitlros,d
declined V I , selling at 57 1 4. Philadelphia and
Erie and Catawissa common each sold at a
shade lower. For Little Schuylkill 29 wasldd ;
50 for Norristown ; 55 for Dlinohill ; 24 for North
Pennsylvania; 03 for Lehigh Valley, and 2534
for Catawissn preferred. City passenger rail
road shares are unchanged. Ifestonville sold
at and Chestnut and Walnut at 40; 21 was
bid for Spruce lind Pine; 16jfor Arch-street;
IPA for liace and Vine; 23 for Union; 77 was
asked for Second and Third, and 26 for Girard
College. The oil stocks continue depressed.
Maple Shade declined It is alleged by the
friends of this company, that although the
"Coquette" well is tapped, they have a five
twelfth interest in the now well that has in_
jured theirs, and that their loss will not be so
serious as the, public generally anticipated.
Of the coal stocks we note further sales of Big
Mountain at 5, and Swatara Falls at 2!4. Rank
mid passenger railroad securities are very
quiet.
•
The following were the quotations of gold
yesterday, at the hours named :
10 A. 74lam
11 A. DI. 141 1 4
1 6 2 M. 144'3
1 P. M. 143%
3 P. M I.l;Ai
4 P. Id 14:1'.4
11y the detailed statement of thepablie debt,
we /Intl the certificates 'of indebtedness given
at sme, , mc,eco, a fallinr , off of nearly twenty
millions from the total at the close of May.
The following shows the public debt at the
date given
1864.
July 19
August 2....
Augustlo...
A uvwst 30...
Oc 1 obei 33
1%5.
March 31
, .
Ditty 31 2,635,205.7 M
July 31 2,757,253,2.75
The principal items of the debt compare
thus on the 31:n of May and the 31st of July:
cnn)t n nn o nnnn
=Le. m
P T
0 I
d 2 :
- cg?
g
e
•
o o : a •
•
`4.• • • 't_:. , . . IST - 2
P. :1 7 "•• 1. .g• - ••: - ...% - .i•
f....,g '.....Fiti...1',..
....lil:Ti
g.g ... ggg'. '..- E.2il
- - =
5 mP.-4 .m 5,%
r.m o'n
7r. 2 , 6 m: • • •
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that ships are merchandise. He says:
TREASURY D EPAET:WENT,
OFFICE OF. INTERNAL ItENENCR,
WASHINGTON, May 11, 1465,
Sir: Yours of the 4th inst. received. YOU
ask, "Are sales of ships by brokers subject to
the tax of one-eighth of one per centl" Ire
ply that ships constitute merchandise, and if
any licensed broker sells the same he Is liable
to tax on sales. Very respectfully,
E. A. ROLLINS, Deputy Commissioner.
The following shows the deposits and coin
age at the United States Mint for the month of
July, 1865:
Gold deposits from all sources
Silver deposits, including purchases
Total deposits
$300,521
Places. Value,
5,106 $108,093
20,005 10,2-11
—4,370,000 72,330
Gold coinage
Silver..
The Secretary of the Treasury holds that ail
bonds, treasury notes, and other obligations
of the United States, are exempt from taxa
tion under State or municipal authority.
Drexel it co. quote:
New 'United States Bonds, 18131 106140106 3 4
U. S. Certifs. of Indebtedness, how.. 97%0 97%
U. S. 7 3-10 Notes, new 99 0 99;4
Quartermasters' Vouchers 96 097
Orders for Certifs. of Indebtedness.. 9K / 6 99
G01d 1 43 144
- -- - -- 14 p".
Sterling Exchange
5-20 Bonds, old
MO Donde, - new,-
10-10 Bonds
Soles of Stocks, August 4.
SALES AT THE PUBLIC BOARD
ICOO Royal It s ..1)30 7I 100 ;IMF° 2%
2CO Walnut Island., %1 400 St \ iebolas... l)3o I ti
lto
Swat
Fa115...2 1-101 2.00 Swatara Ealls•in3o 2Ki
100 do 2%1
SECOND CALL.
Ito Junct ion ......1 , 10 274100 "Winslow. I-
:55.
100 West Penna. NI 200 Phil & Cher RIM. 36.,
AT THE REGULAR BOARD OF BROKERS.
Reportedby limes, Hitler, & Co., 50 S. Third street
FIRST BOARD
1000 U S Os , 81...0001).106;i1 100 Ilestonville R....
1614
2000 S 5-20 85.c0np.103,54 100 Sell Nov prf sswn 3136
500 do oonp-105 200 Da1246108 ....1310 4:
WO do in 1009 etnip.los 100 do4;1
400 (MIN . Cs old. .. ... 89 100 Maple Made. .530 57
4200 ira ...ne*Sots 91:4 200 do lots 8 7
2.110 do Aluniepl.lts 904 200 do 1130 876
500 N Penna. 69 E 1434, 400 St Slob 011_1011 1 3-10
8 Penna 11 07y 1 No SLeCliutoek Oil.. 2
1001'11110 .4 Erie 1f... 22
BETWEEN
6 Penu Towo Ilk.. 45
100 Vending It ...,830 531.1
100 do 630 Et%
500 110 10t8 05 54
100 do lots s 5 5371
100 ao 115 557))
100 do 030 53 91
100 do 030 51
100 do 015 51
100 do 05 EiX,
100 60 030 53 94
100 do sio 213.(
200 do 5133
SECOND BOARD.
1000 City C's new 9041 100 Reading 53.09
100 Reading R.—. 510 5311 500 Iralzell 4.44
200 do 030 5331 200 Maple Sliadellys 890
300 do 53.09 50 Densmore
AFTER BOARDS.
100 Rtildhig b3O 637.51 100 6411 Nov pref,DQO 3136
200 do ..b55z1itt..53.691 100 CALIO,VI9B9 11..., 12
200 do 53.092000 IT 5 5-20 80nd5...10514
200 do 030 53i14 . 100 Excelsior - 34 .
200 do 115 531 300 Dalzel 1 OS.
100 Schuyl Nov Pref 31;6 200 do
100 do 3176 100 do..
SALES AT THE CLOSE
BOARDS.
50 Catawissa R 12
100 F. xeclslor .76
100 McCiintock 2
100 Maple Shade 8 1 4
200 d 0...... . ... 8X
300Swatara. Falls 510 2.!4
200 eOlll Planter.b3o 2
1000 W Chester 70 100
80 Big Mountaln.l/30
00 do
400 Story Farm :58
1100 15 S 0-93 /Mg 10851
700 501 Np.y 3134 c 100 Reading - It— 510 51?4
ICO Reston - 1u it..b;lo 1041 100 du • 5334
W
6 Ches & al Rids 49 160 do slOwn 5334
50 Corn Planter.: - .. 1.94 200 (10 MO 54
200 Creek....... ;k4 100 do • 1)3 54
1151 r.:r111 Nay PM gds 31 500 do 54
160 lteadingli '43 531 500 do '039 54
200 do 1)5 53 3 4 100 do 51
200 do 53.591 100 do MO 337
240 d 0..... 5210
The Now York Post, of yesterilay, s4p;
Gold opened at 1.14 g, and closed dull at 143 X.
Foreign exchange is depressed by the large
supply of bills drawn against 5-20 s, The rate
is 1041084, with sales at 108%(310g,i4.
The loan market continues to work easier.
The rate is seven per cent., with a, good supply
of capital seeking temporary investment.
The stock nutiket is strong
without much
activity. Governments have recovered from
their temporary depression; and though, as
vet; the deinand is small, the holders show
less anxiety to sell.
The following quotations were made at the
board, as compared with yesterday :
Fri. Th. Adv. Dec.
U. S. Bs coupons, 'Bl 1067 1004 11
U. S. 5-20 coupons 100 Z /65^6 11
U. S. 5-20 coupons, new 10334 16-114
U. S. 10.40 eouponB 0976 0 1#
Tennessee 66,.. ; ..... 701? 70
155 156 1
New York Central 93 92 1
Erie 8975 89 74
Eric Preferred 86 80— 34
'Hudson River 113 11234 34
Iteztding, lory, 10535 135
Michigan Central 108 10731 , 4
Michigan Southern 0131 053 1 --
After the board New York Central was
quoted at 95 1 A Erie at 8%, Reading at 107:6,
Michigan Southern - at 67. Later, Axle sold
at 9034
Weekly Review of the Philadelphia
Markets.
Acousr 4—Evening.
ItusinesS hag been lOSSaetiV . o during the past
week, and the markets generally quiet. Flour
is very dull, but prices are without any lila
terial change. Wheat, Corn, and Oats are also
dull and lower. Bark is scarce and in demand.
Cotton is less active and rather lower. Coal
is coming in more freely, and there is more .
doing. Coffee continues very scarce and fin%
Fish continue dull. Green Fruit is coining in
freely and prices have declined. Pig: Iron is
in demand at full prices. Naval Stores are
rather dull. Petroleum is less active. Lard
Oil is firmly held at the advance. Provisions
continue scarce and very firm at the advance.
Seeds are scarce and in demand. In Whisky
there is very little doing ; Sugar is in fair do,
mund at full prices. Wool is firmly held.
There is very little export demand for Flour,
and the market is dull at about former rates;
sales reach about 8,000 'ldyls at from 5g09.50
bid for choice extra and extra family. The
retailers and bakers are buying in a small wai
at from iii 781.25 for superfine
ii , 3.25@0.50 for extra family, and slo@ll yi bbl for
fancy brands, as to quality. Itye Flour is sell
ing in a small way at it.150epa.75 i bbl. Corn
3lcal is dull, and we hear of no sales.
Gl:am—There is 1114)F121 Wheat cawing. and
prices hallo declined •Iticikis3it
about 3;4000 bus reds at :::0061r.::: , 's.:qp hn, elesula'
at the former rate; white :it
lin. Ityc is selling at 105011 me for old and
new. Corn is dull and lower ; :27,a0u bus sold at
U7elerie for prime vellum, ;Co for white.
Oats are also i/ull mid lower, with eiles of 41040
bus at 50@55C for new, and GiCo7llc for ohl, dos
ing at the former rates.
The following Are f lu,, receipts of Flour and
Grain at this port daring' the past week:
7,400
Flour
Wheat 34,200 bus.
Corn 34,800 bus,
Oats 4'2.100 bus.
rill'iVlSlONB.—The Market, as we have no
ticed for several weeks past, continues very
firm, and prices are looking up, owing to the
Want of stock. Mess Pork is selling in a small
way at WOO bbl, Bed Ham aro quotoi
at it3B bbl. Bacon continues very scarce and
In demand, with sales of 550 - tierces plain and
fancy cauvascd Hams at 24032 c V Th ; sides at
•
Ito, and Shottiders at 1,7 1 /Ai,
Meats aro also scarce. Suk,,th
Bates are making at from
ii tNI,
lers at 17 1 /Aloc 1$ L at . t ; day
imull sales of bets anti tiPl,l
le, wad kegs fit 9,56 p' gLitt.+
itb sales of so/hi puck,„/ at
,siren sells at 80@35c 1 .
York Cheese are nialcing
and Eggs at 24@121ie '
BTALS.—Pig Iron is in too
'a of 2,000 tons No. I A othn,
No. 2at $33@34 /1 , 1 ton s,„
air) ton. hlanutacturoi
land at full prices.
of Galena at 159.40
T.. Goner—There i 4 verpr
ay of sales, but prices
m,—Quereitron contianc,,4,,"
aitna.— n Tallow
demad at 1132@32.50 f•-•,
te; adamantine are
and 25@20e li, for 124.
„—The market is mare
is increasing, With
Pert Richmond, '
yz,;,_—There has been lbor,
Are rather better, wi th
2s of middlings at fr et „
48e
continues very searsp,
II sales of Rio are Inociir
Id, and 300 bags St.
ty.
DYF:9 Therriavar,.
ids are lirmly held
mall way at , 1 1 2. 1 4, 7 4.2:1,,,4
Mackerel there Is n., t .,"
of No. 3s are itiak
for large ,111,1
$15.6e bbl. ti
from S2:WI-25 for
for Sla cn
ne ;
for large and s mall i?;
at 80 IRa.
are scarce; oriuli.
'led,.
lan sales of Ora,",,
sB@lo IR box,
and sell nt
are also plenty 411,
$1,7913,203,363
. 1,827,492,170
11,R10,711,555
1,873,50,233
. 2,017,099,515
UM=
6.%
_ .ato Rico.
Jo. —Manufactured is in is
al, with sales of tile grades at 79
f continues dull.
Woot.—Prices are firm, and then
demand from the manuiacturen, ui
of about 300,000 its, in lots, at flinty),
low and fine fleece, and tub at from 7 , 1
BOOTS AND SHOES.—The Pdporter bay,
has been lwa little ulutnge in the
.ifice our t review nsult:i,
renoi • a, • , ,
i,.seers and msuuracturers is quiet,
till engaged in laying in good as w,
goods, for the coming fall taw
;the near-by and city trade is Mir, a'
ire has been considerable falling o
ler. This, with a few buyers fn.
sky, constitutes the business Ira»:
the week. Manufacturers and joke:
en receiving notices from their cb;
the South and West of an early vbit
Amt. The Mcititry fer. Zot•is
Meipally for heavy hinds, nod col ,
bahnorals and goat shoes. The too
;lit goods is small. Manufacture,
.esent engaged with extra force,
utvy goods. Prices are the saint: an
id likely to remain so, owing to all ti
materials. Lasting is scarce unit
New Turk iwtsrnets, Amosi
;naAnsmumes.—The market for ittt
;stern Flour is dull and 50100 lower
n grades; sales 6500 bbls at $5,05 , 4
waffle State; .
for extra
i5@6.75 for choice do ;0,5.85*i/0.40 for sub
;stern ;*.6.50@6.95 for common to moll
L Western, and $8,290,*45 for 90aimp01
ipping brands extra round•hoop -, 011
Wan Flour is s@loc lower; sales 1,.10
ti0@6.85 for common, and $0.00(@9 lot 0
Dice extra. Southern Flour Is dull
bbls at $7.90@9 for common, anti $O.l
r fancy and extra.
Wheat is quiet and steady. Sales I.
oice new amber Western at $2.2•1. ti
-; Chicago Spring at $1.40@1.43. dat,i tt
2c lower, at 0tg590, Tim Corn toot
. and drooping; sales 2c,050 boa at
unsound, and 69 , E000 for sound
astern.
WII/SICY is quiet; sales 200 bbls Wca
19@2.19 1 / 2 .
L L
rAow is firm; sales 140,000 as at W .
onovisions.--The Pork market is
7,600bb1s at $35@35.62 for now nioi
10.3-4 do ; *24.006 , 25.50 for
;.25 for prime mess. The Mei flour
re active ; sales 1,250 bbls at fo
iss, and for extra mess. Cut
firm' sales 400 pkgs at —s--c for
rs, and 20@23 1 / 2 c for Hams. The Larl
Mill • sales 970 bbls 19(0244e.
.1.54 , 46156 1 /
..iosq@los:33
_104(4 - 004°4
•• • • 96 %0 97
Brig -Trindelen,
ballast to captain.
Sehr Bela Peck, Avery, 3 days Mu
Tork, with mdse to Philadelphia,
and Baltimore Railroad Company.
Schr S L Stephens, Studley, 6 days fro'
with headings to Madeira & Cabada.
Sehr Eadosh, Meekins. 3 days front
ter, Md,in ballast to .1 T Justus.
Behr E Haight, Howes,4 days from Prot'
town, with mdse to Geo 11 Kerfoot.
Schr War Eagle, Baker, 5 days from
with mdse to Crowell & Collins.
Sehr Problem, Tyler, 3 days from St
Mcl, in ballast to .1 T Justus.
Schr Gettysburg . , Smith, 5 days from Its
in ballast to Day & Ruthann. ,
Sehr Mabel, Smith, 3 days frOUI Lam ,
with lumber to J W Bacon.
Schr Minnie Kinnie, Prisons, 3 day'
Providence, in ballast to J IL White.
Schr Cordelia Newkirk, Weaver, frot:lJ
ton, in ballast to Day & Huddell.
SchrJ Clark, Scull, from Boston, in ND
J G & G S Repplier.
Schr T T Derringer, Blackman, fret" t'.•
City, in ballast to captain.
Sehr Allan Downing, Smith, front. ,Nor
ford in ballast to captain.
Sehr E A Conklin, Daniels, front Oriot
,ballast to J G & G S Repplier,
Schr D Gifford, Gifford, from Bostus,
last to J G & G S Repplier.
Schr A E Martin, Brower, from 3011) ,
ballast to L Andenried & Co.
Behr B. Rink, Smith, from NOW / ,010° '
ballast to L Audenried & Co. •
Schr M Sewall, lloyt, from Portsmost :
ballast to Sinnickson & Glover.
Schr F, T Allen, Allen, from BoAes,
last to New York and Sch Coal Co,
Schr J L Leach, Grace, from Boston, to
last to W Bunter, Co.
Sella Mary Anna, Jr, Gibbs, from Cohasso
TOWS, in ballast to Caldwell, Sawyer, A t, schr Mary Ellen, Doughty, from is
Mass, in ballast to captain.
Schr C A Heckscher, Mayhew, from •
bury, Mass, in ballast to captain.
Sehr C W Locke, Huntley, front Comawi
Point, in ballast to captain.
Sehr Gust, Homan, front Derby, Ct, bit
to ,1 It
Schr Jos Turner, Soule, from New 'tali
ballast to Van Dusen, Lachman, & Co.
Behr Wainwright, 3lorris, from 80,
in ballast to captain.
Schr R Wilson, Mull, from New]
or
ballast to captain.
Sehr Mary, Ricords, 1 day from Cannier ,
with grain to Jas L Bewley & Co.
Schr Sarah anrl Ngry, Morris, 1 dtn ,
Little Creek Landiew Del, With to .
Bewley & Co.
Schr S C Fithian, Tuft - , 1 day from Palposit,
posit, Itid, with grain to Jug 1. Bewley (
Schr Mabel, Cornwell, 3 days from eat
Del, with lumber to J. 11 Bacon.
Schr Mantua, Maxon, 1 day from Fre,fr:
Del, with grain to Jas Barran.
Sehr Sarah Warren, Postless, lday from
derica, Dol,,witn grain to Jas it.rract.
Schr T MeColley, Derberonalt,
Camden, Del, with grain to has BOW.
Schr Helen, Hunter, 1 day front New CJ
Del, with grain to Jas Barratt. n •.;
Schr Mary Elizabeth, Layton, days
Milford, Del, with grain to Jas Darned.
Steamer .1 S Rockwell, Nichols, .2 t hour's
Sew York, with mdse to W lei Baird k Co.,
Winner 6 Phelps, _Brown 24 hours Iv'
;New York, with lease o W MBaird &
'Steamer Tacony, Pierce, 24. hours DWI*
York with mdse to W M Baird& CO,
Cleared.
Bark Vohint, Snow, Cow Bay.
Bark Edwin, Burdett, Rotterdam.
Prig li S Emery, Palmer, Portland.
Brig roster, Reed Boston.
Seim Catharine (lir), Stutiniff, Barbadoe'i
Schr .1 Truman, llemlerson,.New
K
Seim adosh, Meek ims,ll'ashington.
Sclir Pervade, Phillips, IWashington.
Seim G B Tunnum Long, Port Deposit.
Schr Rate Muller ;Wells, Port Deposit.
Sehr Reading Railroad, No 48, Davis, 115 '
ingt on.
31 Fletcher, Baker, Boston.
Seim C May, Shay', Dos - WU,
Seim Gettvsburg, Smith, Commercial NO,
SAff G C Morris, Arils, Boston.
Seim Minnie Mimic, Parson.% Providenc e.
Schr C A Greiner, Cruise, Providence.
Schr It King, Smith, Providence.
Schr 11 EMartin, Brower, Boston.
Schr Clink, Scull, Boston.
Sc!,,. 13 Gifford, Gillord,
Sehr E A. Conkliai ti °Ti""e"
Schr C Newkirk, %Vetiver, alishvy;
Schr 11 Godfrey Simmons, salon, mass.
I
Schr N Sewall, loyt, VortAnoittll.
Seim Jos Earner, Soule Ipswich.
Seta Lady Ellen, Dondlity, Salm, Mass.
Schr Foil, (new), Fort, Roston.
Seim it 11 Wilson Moll, Sew lhalforu.
Sebr R IY Dillon Ludlam, Boston.
Sehr T A1)011,1110113 BOSt9R,
Schr Borroughs C, Clark, Boston,
N E clark, Clark, Raton.,
'he rates to Livo m
the offerings
10@P2s Ift ton. A it
3 Cork for 00(47
2eights ewalii6l
1 . 1011. t cirsnge. •
tarket is dull log
With tho Ilts(1, '
iness is fair; 4,;
ening at
les of lirst-sui.i
tng at 30611(k:1;1: I
1 are arm, Wiq this
'the season,
market fias h o ,
r last review, 1 1
1
ton of stock
tter feeling
every desvpv,,
ht. The
few ,Saleg
.emand for shoe ;
ponain d but
'@ lo e ; gout
tt market for
steak rem
, te 4uelKei
41 WM1111 . 1 f 0;
pat report_ p : ,
very little
ers are Sr!,
at Frit. p ut
salei of It
lA, Rio
ifllnllll.
qnlLll-.LI
lon a r
held ullnt
•interail
, ula .
12f:
anal
foam:
5 from rortsiwy