gip ',lrtss. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1865 ifflrWe can take no notice of anonymous commn rdeations. We do not return rejected manuscripts. Voluntary Correspondence is solicited from all parts of the world, and especially - from our military and naval departments. When used, it will be paid for. THE ATLANTIC 'TELEGRAPH. - It iS not an ascertained fact that the At lantic Telegraph is a complete failure, al though what is called insulation is reported to have been lost, when seven hundred and fifty miles of the cable had been payed out. If the electric power finds any passage of exit, no matter how small, in the cable, this insulation is lost—precisely as the contents of a cask of wine must be lost if the vessel leaks. Thus, at a distance of eighty miles from Valentia, faulty insulation was de tected, and it was discovered, on winding in the cable, that it had been caused by the perforation, by a bit of wire, of the hemp and pun percha forming the outer protec tive integument of the wire—the hole not being larger than what would have been made by adarning-needle. The eablS may have broke—a not improbable circum stance, seeing that it was not in one con tinuous line, but in lengths of one hu n d re d to one hundred and fifty miles which had to be mechanically spliced together on board of the Great Eastern. A hard or sudden strain on any one of these splices might break the cable. It is possible, after all, that the sci entific men on Wait the Great Eastern may have overran the submerged cable, discov ered where "the fault" iay, repaired the injury, and proceeded on her stupendous work. We shall not learn the facts for some days. In the event of total failure, the Great Eastern would return to Ireland and report particultitS, Which we must pa tiently wait for. It would appear, from the partieulai . s whieh we published yester day, that the length of rope shipped on board the Great Eastern was not sufficient to reach from Valentia to Heart's Content This, if true, shows a singular want of pru dence, prevision, and calculation. We can scarcely credit the statement, for the actual length of the cable has been reported by its makers at two thousand three hundred nau tical or two thousand seven hundred statute While there is even a shadowy chance of the Atlantic Telegraph having been success fully laid, the locality of " the fault" having been ascertained, and requisite repairs Made, as before, it would be premature to write its epitaph but we may observe that it had come to be considered as almost ex- . elusively a British nndertaking, though a great deal of American money was invested in it, and the tariff of prices—one dollar per letter !—was considered so extortionate as to be nearly prohibitory. It has lately been explained, however, on the part of the Atlantic Telegraph Company, that this tariff was only temporary and experi mental, and would be adjusted to satisfy the public, as soon as ever the working capability of the line was ascertained. In the event of success, it was contemplated to lay down a second cable, and the increased power thus obtained Would cer tainly enable the rate of charge to be reduced in a reasonable degree. The other objection being national, cannot be so easi ly got over. Both termini of the line being on British soil, the whole concern became essentially British. Were the line werk ins . , and any diiticitlty to arise between the "United States and Great Britain, our com munication with the Old World would be cut off at once. It was plausibly stated by Mr. Cvnus FIELD, on the part of the Atlan tic Telegraph Company, that an interna tional treaty could provide for American participation in the advantages of the line, but in the event of war—which may God mercifully avert—this would be impossible and no less an authority than that eminent statesman and author, the late Sir GEOROE CORNWALL LEWIS, declared that "all treaties are abrogated by war for the time being." These arc the reasons why not much in terest, comparatively speaking, was taken in this country in the second Atlantic Tele graph. It was generally felt that we ought to have had one terminus in America, as the other is on British soil, and that we had been, in a manueri, overreached in havine both termini on Brirish territory. Naturally enough, too, we preferred that line now constructing by our own enter prise, skill, and capital, which is known as Corer-Ns' Overland Telegraph, and which promises to place us in communication - with Europe by way of St. Petersburg. No doubt a third sub-Atlantic , telegraph will be attempted, if the second really has met with irretrievable failure ; but, at all events, we shall have Commis' Overland line within a comparatively brief period. IMPERIAL EIIPECENIOSIVE. Should any of our readers be burthened with more money than he well knows what to do with, we can recommend them a mode of investing it so securely that his capital will be lost forever—lost as complete ly asif he had gone out to sea, and dropped it in the oceari-depths—,and he will have but a Flemish account of the interest after a year or two at the farthest. MAxrut- LIAN, of Austria, who condescended to ac cept the crown of Mexico, some sixteen months ago, and has already resorted td two foreign loans in order to raise the wind, is about putting out proposals for a third. He means again to try his luck in Paris, where, indeed, he obtained the needful only a few months ago. The first loan, to be applied to his establishment on the throne, was raised in the money markets Of Paris, London, and Vienna. The second was exclusively a French specula tion, as the Austrian capitalists had be come aware of the instability of MAxi- VI7.TAIsi'S throne, and as under the law prohibiting lotteries in England, it was impossible to negotiate a loan there, the programme of which actually included a lottery. MAXIMILIAN was literally over head and ears in debt when he accepted the crown offered to him at Miramor, by half a dozen ill-conditioned Mexicans, traitors to the republic, who acted as the servitors and tools of the Emperor NAPOLEON. He has no more idea of the value of money than had Mr_ Harold Skimpole, in "Bleak Rouse." He has always been thriftless, extrava gant, and dishonest. More than any other prince of the present century has this tall Austrian enabled us to realize the force and truth of SALLIMVS description of CATALINE, that he was profuse of his own, covetous of the possessions of others. He has never squared his expenditure by his means, and therefore always has been in a chronic state of impecuniosity. In retirement at Mira mor, he contrived to spend as much as - when he was viceroy of Venetia. lie has ran through about $100,000,000 during his sixteen months' reign, and no w , out of cash again, wants to borrow more. we hear something, now and then, of his gen erous nature, his excellent heart, and his agreeable manners ; but he can easily be generous with other folks' money ; his good heart forgets what misery his creditors may sustain through his dishonesty ; and, no matter how plausible his address, he is no more than an imperial Jeremy Diddler, a royal Robert Macaire. Of course, Mexico cannot long bear with MaxturmAx. Her debt, large when she was republican, has increased since she became imperial. The public may rely on it that, whenever MAxuarmAx is sent back to Europe, Mexico will repudiate all the loans which he has obtained. There will be great dissatisfaction among the leaders when this oteurs. We recommend Maxt l MILIAN not to take Paris on his way hack to Austria, for the law of arrest for debt is very stringent in that capital ;hiscreditora might lock him up in the Rotel de (Melly (the debtors' prison,) and his deliverance, thence, without payment in full, might be uncertain. There is a precedent for the im misonment, as a debtor, not only or a Prince but of a ging. Over a Century ago, a Westphalian gentleman, Rallied THEODORE TON NEIITIOFF, who was pretty much of an adventurer, landed in Corsica, then under the yoke of the Repub lic of Genoa, made large promises of achiev ing independence, was elected King by the General Assembly, gave his subjects a new constitution, coined money, conferred titles of nobility, created an order of Knighthood, waged war with Genoa with partial sue tie] success, and, after some months' reign, finding his popularity on the wane, retired from his Kingdom, to which he never re turned—though he made two attempts, both times with some sort of an armament. At last, after much wandering and many mis fortunes, King THEODORE found his way to London, where, he was well received. As was his custom, he got into debt, was iMprisoned for some years in the King's Bench Prison, where he used to - receive visitors with regal ceremonials, and finally was liberated as a bankrupt, on making over to his creditors his Kingdom of Cor sica, which was publicly advertised as an asset. He died soon after, in December, 1756. It is to be feared that if MAXIMILIAN made over his Mexican empire to his cre ditors, it would be about as unprofitable an asset as • WaS THEODORE'S Corsican King dom. lic AIiCIENT STORY, a - strange and mystic. romance hovers in legendary obscurity around the Pillars of Herenles, veiling the wonders beyond from the eyes of man, and . . permitting imagination to fashion realms of wealth endabodes of . bliss amid the waters of the unknown ocean. This grand gate- Way, opening towards the far sunsetting, was also invested in more recent times with a hardly less mysterious romance and un known terror, as the channel by which the burning sons of thc East, fiery, as their na tive &ECM, and rapid as the simoen t bore down upon the terrified people of the West, spreading panic as much by their occult wisdom as by their flashing scimetars and their fleet steeds. Adding to the fearful charm of this mysterious gateway to the far unknown, was the grand and impreg nable fortress built by Nature-4he huge rock of Tarif, whence he deManded tribute of every daring mariner who ventured the passage. Century followed century, yet the stone of Tarif remained ft mighty power upon the earth, a defence against which armaments and armies were unavailing. So stood Gibraltar (the rock of Tar or Tarif), for long ages, a barrier defying all assaults; and it has bequeathed to all sub. sequent times the name of that grand bul wark of national strength, that secure for tress behind which the industry of a people shelters itself against all enemies, and defies all foreign foes—Tnn TAILIVF In olden times, when a nation was merely regarded as a band of subjects, the mere in struments by which the sovereign's mag nificence was supported and his glory main tained, the army was his defence against his foe, and his shield against thq aggressor; but in our own day, when the ofieiais of a government are only the servants of the people, we draw our glory from our indus try, and our power from our weelth, and line our boundaries not with armed men and forts, but fortify them with custom houses. A tariff is the true Modern defence for a seaboard, and protection to domestic industry, the surest method of acquiring and preserving the wealth of a nation and main taining its glory among the peoples of the earth. TEXAS PAPERS—No. 7. TILE PEOPLE AWD Eirr. rs.r.ms I think that I have heretofore said that the grain section of the State has received its in habitants from ArlianSaS, Missouri, the West, ern and .Iqorthern States, and Europe. Its climate and productions arc suited to them all, and they are almost universally pr osperous ill their new homes. Their country is an in termixture of rolling timbered and, prairie lands, and grows ahnOst anything planted in abundance. Cotton is raised all over it some!, what; but not so largely as farther down 'She country. It is a very much better stock region than are the midland counties; and almost every farmer is also doing a good stock busi ness ; many of them keeping very large herds. They arc never enclosed; only occasionally a few for immediate domestic purposes. All the rolling lands of the State are more or less divided into prairie and timber; in some places the wood predominates; in others, the prairie. The river bottoms (valleys lying along the river courses) are usually very heavily wooded and extremely fertile; grow ing from one to two bales of cotton per acre, and of along staple. The post-oak lands often lie in very large bodies ; are usually sandy, quick soils, but soon exhausted. They arc, especially when lying pear river bottoms, the best hog ranges in the State. Blackjack lands are still lighter, and less enduring than the post-oak ; and with plenty of other lands un occupied, - no prudent farmer will open his fields amongst them. The prairie lands are either smooth or hogwallow. The smooth prairie is sometimes light and sandy; par taking of the nature of the post-oak lands— easy. to work, but liable to ask for manure aft Or cropping a few years;.or rich, deep, dark, heavy lands, not so easy to work, but seemingly inexhaustible. The hogwallow is a deep, black, sticky land, lying in a eon tinned series of hogwallows, looking exactly as though at some time the whole country had become soft, and just then a herd of hogs, large enough to cover it over, at about a half dozen to a square red, had taken possession . each one rooted himself out a bed, laid down!. for a wallow, and then walked away, leaving the whole country thus wallowed to harden and grass over as they left it. It is by far the richest of prairie lands, and Cotton is raised upon it at nearly the same rate as upon the bottom lands. It has a terribly haid, tough sod, and is never thoroughly broken up at the first ploughing. Any land that is good cotton land is also good corn laud; but corn grows - where cotton fails. THE CULTURE of Texas lands (excepting that occupied by the Germans and a few Northern men) is stn. venly in the extreme. The land is never well ploughed. It is simply skimmed or rooted up upon the surface, leaving the subsoil un stirred. Often for corn there are but three little furrows ploughed fOr each row at first, leaving an the land between the rows to be ploughed out at weeding time. The hoe is unused in its culture ; and when we remem ber that a man and a mule are expected to take care of all the cotton the man can pick (and cotton requires clean culture,) and be side that to plant and take care of some fif teen acres of corn between whiles, the only wonder is that it gets any attention, or yields any crop at all. There are some strange theories among Texan farmers. For instance, they insist that deep ploughing won't do at all; that in dry seasons the water must be kept near the sur face, and in wet the corn roots must have the same treatment. So you see they never plough down, lest in dry weather the water shall run away, and in wet weather the roots ; forgetting, or refusing to believe, that the true theory is exactly the reverse. In dry weather the corn must be able to send its roots down for moisture, while in wet seasons the water must be let lown, and the roots will of themselves remain near the surface. They also have another theory : that in dry seasons there most be no hoeing, no stirring of the Soil, and actually refused to be con verted from the error of their ways, even though Mr. Kendal kept his hoes busy through out the season, and raised forty bushels per dere, wiled other fields rotted up their leaves and refused to grow any ears at all. I have seen corn throughout the state, and when great crops were raised also, selling for two dollars per bushel ; often - at one dollar, owing to press of immigration; but a fair average is fifty cents. And this, considering the great yield, is a great price. Wheat sells as high, Or higher, than in Pennsylvania, and cotton was, in former times, sold at from eight to twelve cents per pound, The yield being, say a bale to the acre, and a bale being five hundred pounds, it left a handsome pay for For• a few years prior to iseo negro men— eunimon field hands—sold on an average in Texas for fifteen hundred dollars, or Were hired fur two hundred and fifty dollars per year, and the hirer furnishing board, clothes, aml medical attention.' Every man employed in cotton culture was growing rich, and raising and the negroes possible. THI: -MARKETS for corn, wheat, and other grains was at home,. The cotton was drawn to Red River, Houston, Lavaca, or else to, Mexico. There are large cotton establishment,,, in tmobses,lina, and they were pretty largely supplied with the raw ma terial from Texas. 1 have seen cotton teams on the road for Chili ust beginning a trip of eight hundred miles on the way, They were sixteen mule teams, worked four abreast; owned and driven by Mexicans, and having a herd of forty spare mules along, from which the teams were to be kept good by exchanging from time to time. The Texan teams are often a couple of months on the road, going at the rate of about twelve miles a day. But as they draw cotton as they draw lumber, and live the same, it costs but little, and still leaves a good profit. Of course, these long trips are from the fur interior. If the crops of Texas were the same in quantity (and they are equal or excel) as of the old States, still in snaking of ,Gloat value, or income, it must be remem bered, that in the North, the laud mutt be parattetlL-in. Texas, not. In the North the summer must be largely spent, and the land constantly dressed, to prepare for winter food for. stock—in :Texas, not. In the North the winter must be spent in feeding stock—in Texas, not. In the North pastures must be bought and fenced and kept in repair to graze the stook—in Texas, not. In the North land is expensive and often poor, and has to be tho roughly worked to yield a crop—in Texas, neither. In comparative MEM Texas stands far ahead of the North, if the bot tom lands and bayou country is avoided. I have seen more of this country and worn out more saddles, simply for health and comfort, than any man I ever met ; and nowhere upon this Continent, or its islands, have I ever found as salubrious a climate as that of the highlands of,Western Texas. But if there happens to be Some young doctor, reader of my papers, who is anxious to emigrate, but seared by the ter ribly healthy revelations of the last few lines, let me reassure his fainting heart; by telling him to go, by all means, and to carry with him a big box of calomel and quinine—ealomel and quinine are the doctors , only medicines in Texas; at any rate, I know nothing of their using anything else, save a Mae whikley now and then—but, keeping an eye to business, he must settle in the low country or in the Gulf towns ; and then, if he isn't killed himself, he will have the chance to help kill any number, with chills And fever, intermittent fever, ty phoid fever, yellow fever, cholera, and various other like diseases to the faculty agreeable, to say nothing of sundry snake bites and de lightful gunshot wounds, and big knife holes. 8o the doctor need not despair. The yellow foyer and cholera have often ravaged the coast district, but never gone into the northern, middle, or western part of the State. When carried there they never spread. Texas is so large a State that a description o • THE CLIMATE Of any one section will not answer for it all; but I will give the climate of ita capital; Aus tin, and by reference to the map, that of any other given place can be judged of. Its summers arc long, but not oppressive; because there is a constant breeze arising from eight to ten o'clock in the morning, keeping the air sweet and COOL I have often observed that cattle work less with their tongues out there than in New England. There is but little wiuter-ice very seldom making—and yet there are occasional northers (cold North winds,) during which people who are out suf fer ; and sheep and hogs, (being thin-blooded, unprepared for cold, and unsheltered,) chill to death. They never freeze, but simply chill and die. I once knew an old negro Man to do the same, in the open prairie, during a norther, There are but very few weeks of the year in which flowers Of some kind are not blossom ing in the open air. The country, climate, and crops need no im provement, nor do the opportunities for ac quisition of wealth. But, lest the picture may .look too bright to be real , and set somebody, who is already well enough off at home, into a fever to move, f Will throw a grain into the other scale, fly telling him that in Texas, the church, school-house, mill, store, and fencing as well as building timber are sometimes far away. This is as lie is, pleased to have it, though, when he settles. That the snakes, lizards, Scorpions; tarantulas, and centipedes are now and then your visitors; that ants fleas, and bed-bugs are,everywhere. The houses are poor, and the barns are nowhere; and yet, all in all, it is the best State in or out of the Union to emigrate to. As a specimen of the old-styled Texan dwel ling houses, I once crossed the Brazos River in a shower, and took shelter in a Cabin that stood upon its banks. The wind drove the rain across the room from between every two logs. There was but one seat in the house shltered from the blast, and that was behind the door, which was battened. The owner was all Old man, intelligent and talkative. Before leaving, I asked him how many negroes lie owned ; Iris answer was 4 , I work a couple Of hundred, but the Lord knows how many old and little ones there are; I don't? , "How much land have you?" said I. "Forty-five hundred aeres.' , " How many cattle)" I don't know anything about it; my brand is all over the country." "How long have you lived here?" "Fifteen years." "Why don't you build a better house? , wwell, now rm just in the other man's fix. When it is good weather this one does me, but when it rains, why, you see, I can't do it then." But that Gras in 153, and since that time good houses have been going up here and there all over the State. I have my mind's eye at this moment upon a beautiful little dwelling upon a simple stock ranch, in Hays county, that would do honor to any village in Pennsyl vapia. It is a White limestone cottage, built of rough blocks, in form of a Greek cross, crowning a little liveeak eminence, exactly upon the ridge of the water-shed, and so situ ated that the water running from its north eaves finds its way throng the Onion into the Colorado, and that from its south eaves, through the Blanco, into the Guadalupe. Standing in the midst of those great natural pastures, covered with flocks and herds ; sur rounded by its cattle-yards and little cedar islands ; - with a magnificent stretch of undu lating country lying open upon the one side, and a great bank of rugged hills upon the other—fanned cool breezes 'upon the out side and refreshed by a well-selected library upon the inside, that little ranch eottage—lone ly as it standsto an miambitiOns man would 'not be hard to take, especially if a thousand cattle went with it to sugar-coat the dose. A Southern Portrait of General Grant. The Richmond Times, in noticing the ovation to General Grant in Boston, has the following appreciative remarks : "It is not every man, nor is it every event, that can kindle warmth in the cold hearts of the Bostonians. It requires an extraordinary Man, or an event of uncommon importance to do so. Itisnot surprising that the people of the North should turn out in great numbers to meet Gen. Grant. Such a man is not to be met with every day or every year. He is one of the first com manders of this age, and, as a man, he has dis played qualities that must attract universal respect. Plain and. unpretending in his ad dress, of modest speech and manners, disdain ing to court attention by the trappings of of fice, he pursues the even tenor of his way like a quiet, private gentleman. To the skilt and courage of the soldier he uffites that so lid integrity which is, oftener found in pri vate station than in the haunts of public life. The South does not yield to the 'North in respect for and appreciation of General Grant. While the Southern people are far less excitable and demonstrative than the people of the North, we believe that they look upon G eneral Grant with as much interest and real admiration as he excites among them. Richmond fell before him, and. with it the GO vernment of which it was the capital; but to this day that noble conqueror has never en tered its gates. Whether this proceeded from delicacy of feeling, from a generous and re spectful consideration for the people, or from any other cause, it must always present him in a most favorable light. A vain., weak, egotistical man Would have delighted to exhibit himself under such circumstances, and to be pointed out as the hero of the occasion. General Grant, from the close of the war up to this hour, has maintained a dignified silence, reserve, and seclusion that contrasts most favorably with the preten- tious airs and pompous display exhibited by many men of greatly inferior mark and merit. While they swell and strut like the vain. pea cock, he shrinks from observation. lie cannot, of course, be expected to bury himself, but as far as it is possible he appears to keep himself out of the range of observation. We do not doubt that it would be far more agreeable to him to be permitted to make his present tour like a private, .ordinary citizen; but this is out of the questaen. There is a universal de sire to see, shake hands - with, and bestow pub lic honors upon the great General who has won the proudest name and fame of all the Northern Generals, and who, in his great place, has borne himself with so becoming a modesty." Oyu ANDERSOSIVILLE DlAurrits.—A private letter from, Capt. James M. Moore, A. Q. M., who was despatched to Andersonville, Ga., for the purpose of giving decent burial to the remains of our prisoners who were murdered by the late rebel authorities, has been received in Washington. Capt. M. writes under date of July 2fi : "We are encamped within one hundred yards of the prison pen of Andersonville, and it is, in the fullest sense of the word, nothing more than a pen.' A human pen, where thirty thousand of our brave soldiers were huddled together in an enclosure not two hundred yards long and scarcely one hundred wide, - where they were exposed to the rays of an al most tropical sun for months, resulting in the death of- thousands. This prison-pen should never be permitted tobo destroyed, but should stand until its stockade falls to the ground by decay, so that the unbelieving of the North may be able to look on thisground and con vince themselves of the inhuman cruelties perpetrated by the Southern leaders on our prisoners. This is about the hottest place in the South. There i.re yet about fourteen thousand head-boards to letter and put up, and I may. not get home before the latter part of August." rAMT.ED ANGELS AT SA RATOOA.-A.MC wspaper correspondent has had his feelings terribly shocked at Saratoga Springs, and thus explains the cause : Nor one whole week my most ardent sympa thies were excited at the sickly, languid ap pearance of a young lady who had a seat di rectly opposite 3111, every day at the dinner table ; her fond Was emaciated, her skin per fectly transparent, and a cath-hke hue seemed to pervade the whole atmosphere about her the eye shone with unnatural brilliancy, and under them was perceptible the inevitable blue-black coloring—the tell-tales of a deban chee. 1 longed for an introduction, that I might recommend the application of fresh oys ters or a blood-sucker; but tailing , at an oppor tunity to secure this privilege, I besought a lady friend to suggeSt these applications. •'La me," she exclaimed, in utter amazement, "why how verdant you tire; don't you know that the lady paints her lower eyelids?" It was indeed too true, as I have since ascertained posi tively. She for whom my whole soul has yearned in sympathy for a week, was daubed all over with paint, and Meat shockingly dis figured herself to gratify a prurient taste to be in the extreme of fashion. Looking around me at the dinner table to-day I saw no less than six ladies disfigured by a daub of blue black paint on the lower eyelids. The next fashion possibly may require ladies to wear rings in thegr noses, It 1$ hied enough to wear paste diamonds and pinchbeck jewelry • but when earth's angels begin to paint about the e y es , wear false - busts, and false hair in a bag behind their heads, to what extremes may we not expect the dear creatures to go ! LARUE P.EIMIrTour finr.r: or CnItPETINGS THIS DAY. -A choice aSSortrnent of ingrain, hemp, rag, and cottage carpeting, meriting the early attention of buyers, will be peremp torily sold by catalogue, on four months' credit, this morning, commencing at eleven o'clock, by John IL Myers C Co., auctioneers, Nos. 2n and WI Market street. THE GREAT Snirrm FAMILY.—A directory of the city of Baltimore, recently published, shows that there are in that city at the present time six hundred and eight two persons an swering to the name of- Smith!! Among them are seventy-one John Smiths. THE TTESK-L-PITILADELPITTA, ATTMTST 11, 1865: PASSENGER RAILWAY TRIPS--NO. XII. SECOND AND THIRD STREETS. MORUS MULTICAULIS. BRONZE STATUE OE ABRAIUM LINCOLN. NORTH PENNSYLVARLIL RAILROAD. DISSERTATION ON ALAI TREES WASHINCTON'S HEADQUARTERS. YELLOW COTTAG E. GHOST S Fl' 0 Mit, "Ir THE PURPLE AND - BLUE. The Second and Third-street road extends through thc great business portion of the city, connecting the northern and southern parts of Philadelphia on its eastern front. The tide of travel is up Third and down Second street. One of the peculiarities of the road is an ad mirable arrangement which the public will appreciate. Upon the crossing of any of the "steam railroads" which intersect the track, the conductor goes ahead of the car, to see that no locomotive is approaching. This is an effectual safeguard against collision, and pas sengers may therefore feel safe from any dan ger of colliding with steam cars. This ar rangement ought to be made by every local railway company that crosses tracks at grade, upon which steam is used as the motive power. We commence our sketch of the Second and Third street route at the southern terminus, on Moyamensing avenue, below Tasker street. This section of the city has considerably improved within a few years. Old landmarks, of times anterior to the Revo lution,-even at so long a period as when the Swedes settled there, are almost gone. There are one or two left, which carries the mind back to the early history of Philadelphia. This section of the city, at so late a period as 1838, was almost wholly appropriated to the culture of mortis municautis. Everybody was insane on the silk business, and finespun castles were erected in the airy vision of the imagination. In a year or so, however, the projectors ascertained, to their great disap pointment; that castle* built upon worms were as unstable as those built upon sand; the silken threads that were to bind them in wealth were, as flax touched by fire. Down went moms naldticaidis, and potato and cab bilge patches, oats, rye, and corn sprang up in its place, and so continued until the progress of improvements set in that way. A few mul ticaulis trees are yet standing in a lot a short distance south and east of where the cars stop. These are the only things left to mark the era of insane speculation of only twenty-seven years ago. At that time Third street was not Open as it public thoroughfare. A creek, which emptied into the Delaware, extended west to Ninth street, crossing Moyamensing avenue below Reed street. A bridge spanned the stream near this point, over which the " neck ers" had to pass to reach the city with their garden produce. We will pass by the horrible ghost stories of the past as connected with this section, as we have an interesting one on the lower part of the downward trip. The Stockdale school-house, known as the "house on the hill," remarkable for its inany echoes, and the Redwood-street Presbyterian Church are shortly passed by in the moving -panorama. This church, we may say, was erected mainly through the exertions of. the Rev. Mr. Owens, a brother to General Joshua Owens, who won the rank of general by his valor in the recent rebellion. It is a pretty, substantial structure. When it was built it was considered that Sun day never reached So southern a point, but since that period several other churches of Protestant and Catholic denominations have been erected at a considerable distance far, ther south. Even the blessings of Evangelism have begun to Shed their rays upon the eon_ Hoes of "Smoky Hollow," still farther south. But let us continue on our route. The ear passes Jefferson Square on its eastern front. A moreheautiful enclosure cannot be found in Philadelphia. Through the energy of, a ?lum ber of citizens of old Southwark, it iS soon to be beautified by tho erection of a : - STATIIit OF Apr.A.arAit LINCOLN This statue will be full life•size of the la mented, martyred President. It will be placed on a pedestal six or eight feet high, in the centre of the square, the whole to be sur rounded with a neat and appropriate iron railing. ODD- p.p.r.towsi HALL. The car passes in front of the Odd Fellows' Hall, below German street, the lower part of which is popularly known as Long's Varieties, containing, among other things, a fine and valuable museum, the best and most enter taining in the city of Philadelphia. There are lilandreds of relies of antiquity and trophies of various kinds at this well-known resort. R. ST. JAMES After passing directly in front of St. Peter's Episcopal Church, at Pine street, the car pro coeds along through a neat business portion of the city—eatensive • storehouses, wholesale commission merchants, bank_ buildings, and the brokers' headquarters, where "bulls" and " , bears" snort and growl, then hug each other. The first object demanding some attention is the old This old building, in which there have been so many local political squabbles, seems to be sadly neglected. It is a singularly constructed edifice, having been erected with the view of giving the public as much trouble as possi ble-in gaining access to its council chamber. In latter years the commissioners who con trolled the district 'were pretty much all De mocrats. Although the principle of Democra cy is one thing, yet there were two kinds of Democrats who composed the Board of COM missionen. -One set was known as the " Regu lars? the other as the "Guerillas. , Within a year or two of the period of consolidation of the city these two parties used to indulge in the grossest personalities and recriminations, until it seemed as though they had been elect ed for the purpose of turning the hall into a "bear garden." They certainly misrepresented the people, because there never existed a more quiet, orderly, well-to-do people than the resi dents of the Northern Liberties. The hall is used for police purposes. The mastic is peeling off the front, and thus its appearance does no credit to the public authorities. After passing in review the busy scenes of industry and prosperity incident to Phila delphia enterprise, the attention of the spec tatorial passenger will be somewhat attracted by a neat little church building, below George street. . This edifice belongs to the Methodist episcopal persuasion, and is known as "nt. John's." Another church, rough-cast, will be observed, located some distance back from the street line. This is the only church of the kind, we understand, in this city. It belongs to the denomination of "Bible Christians." A Small, though pretty well filled grave yard is in front of the building, extending out to the line of the street. Through the marble slabs, upright and horizontal, the Bible Christians poised the way to gain entrance to their church Minding. If there should be solemnity in approaching a place of religiOus worship, then it may be considered apropos. to have burial places arranged as the aboV,e, for no meditator can pass thrOugh without entertain in grave reflections. The next place of note is the 310.11 TH PEN NSYLTANLA 'RAILROAD rotEPOT. Upon turning into Germantown road from Third street the car passes directly in front of the line and well-built depot of the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company, from which point the steam pars run through a splendid country, exquisite in the luxury of nature, rich in the fertility of the soil, grand in its, teeming vales, and inspiring in its "heaven kissing Small parties, families, &0., often make trips on this road for pleasure. Starting in the morning and coming back in the evening, they pass a day of delight among the green hils and mountain spurs. Dinners Of every kind, the best of meats, the richest of creamy milk, the purest butter, freshest WA cool, sparkling spring water, pies and pud_ clings of every kind, all sorts of fruit in sea son ; everything of first quality, and as much as one can eat, may be obtained for the sum of fifty cents. At stopping-places on this route meals way be had at this rate, such as would do credit to the "Continental"or the "Gi rard." Besides this, the tables are attended by rosy-checked, healthy country girls,-not by waiters dressed in white aprohs and the "In solence of office," but by those who seem to take pleasure in extending thehospitalities Of a Pennsylvania farmer's house, whose winning smiles and decorous demeanor Charm and command due respect. The ear makes a sweep into Oxford stree presently passing the Tlf IZD REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH BUILD at the corner of Hancock street. This is a plain brick, substantial in its construction, not very large, and fronting closely on the street line of both thoroughfares, an iron rail ing unclosing, both its fronts. The car upon reachMe Front street, turns to the north, and in a few minutes the Kensington Depot, et Harrison street, attracts attention. The ear approaches this place on the west. Hero passengers may alight who desire to take the SI cam train for New York, via Trenton, &C. Onward the car goes at a moderate %Veal and in a few moments more it turns into Amber street, thence into Frankford road. Hero the country to the northward is more open. To the left a very satisfactory view of the is obtained. This is one of the prettiest buildings in Philadelphia. It is really worth stereoscoping. It Contains several pretty towers, from which a fine view of the jeir rounding country, the Delaware river, and the shipping can be seen. It was built by the BY crtirs." NORTHERN - LIBEItTr matt, PASSING GLANCE AT ciruucans Episcopal denomination ; but it is conducted with charity for all classes whoniay be unfor tunate in meeting with accident, Sm. THE DEPOT. Presently the car reaches the depet,onFrank ford road, below the Reading Railroad track. It is a commodious building, having extensive stabling, and all the necessary apartments for the business to which it is appropriated. The arrangements are perfect, and well conducted. At the present time a road, extending from thedepot to Frankton', and probably to other places within the country, is progressing rapidly as possible. It will soon be finished. This route or track belongs to another com pany, but the use of the Second and Third street depot has been granted to the directors .thereof. When finished, a fine opportunity will be afforded, the citizens to take a few pleasure trips through the prettiest part of the country to the ancient village. . The car passes down Frankfort' road, and turns up Master to Second street. On this part of the route a very pretty view may be had of the new ST. ANeS CHURCH, of the Catholic denomination, of Richmond. Besides this, the school-house adjacent will attract attention, We• observe here that pri- Vate improvements are inercasing, and it spay be safe to predict that in the course of a few years what remains of the virgin soil will be broken, and progress will erect its architectu ral monuments. The enr eroSsea the Trenton Railroad tracks at an acute angle, and presently the attention will be arrested by AN IMMENSE ELM TREE, supposed to be nearly three hundred years old. There is something singular in regard to the elms. They sprang up indigenous to the soil, extending from the Delaware to the Schuylkill, in the northern part of Philadel phia. Here and there, even to this late clays are ti aces of the elms ; while in the south ern section of the city, buttonwood or syca more trees prevailed. The particular elm of wioCh ri - e speak, is of immense size Perhaps it has not its equal in Philadelphia. The main stem branches off some distance from the sur face of the ground; each branch—seven or eight in number—being as large as other forest trees generally are. This tree/night be likened unto an umbrella, under the shadow of which at least six hun dred persons might assemble, Its long arms spread out in all the luxuriousness of Nature. The elm is a clean tree; no worms, moths, or caterpillars disturb it, It rejoices in free im munity from such postilenees, to which the ornamental trees of the city are subject, It was a smaller tree than this under which Wm. Penn met the savages, and taught them their A B C's in the alphabet of civilization. The house which stands in the rear of this beauti ful, graceful, and stately tree, was known, in former years, as the f 4 Eirn-Tree Tavern." It now a private residence, seemingly imbedded in masses of foliage, flowers, and running vines, pending from or entwining their tendrils around well-constructed verandas. Until within two or three years there were several other elms in this vicinity, but they fell under the power of the woodman'S axe, tO make room for general improvements of art. It was a pity, but it could not be helped. At the junction of the rrankford road and lliontgomery avenue, formerly Cherry street, there are some splendid improvements. The site here was once, and until recently occu pied by a farm-house built of English.made brick. It was probably erected at so early a period as 1687. In regard to its architectural appearance, it was porch-like, the gable being the front, embellished with a very heavy eave projecting over the side walls, the raking cor nice butting 011 the base line. A pediment of similar construction adorned the main door way. There was almost as much wood used in the cornice and raking mouldings as would be required in building small bonus houses of the present day. This substantially built edifice was used in the Revolution as WASIIII.I6ToN's TLEADQUAnTnitS but it had to go, with the stately elms that shadowed it, to make room for more modern style of improvements. There were two smaller buildings, similar in appearance, and probably built about the shme time. On the site of the old brick farm -house, there now stands the chapel of the FIRST CONGREGATIONAL vnuncit, erected only three years since, and for which the, old landmarks had to be removed. At that time the vicinity still retained much of its original siMplicity, and the march of im prevenient Seemed to stop here. The chapel is a stone structure, with ground and stained glass windows, appertaining to the Gothic style. ' Since its erection, other properties have been erected in the immediate vicinity that for press-brick structures with white pOliSlied marble door and window jambs will compare with any in the city of Philadelphia. It seems that in a short time the whole of this neighborhood will be studded with some of the finest dwellings in our city. But we proceed on our route, passing in re view the splendid mansion and garden of MI:- Harrison, a wealthy gentleman who has done much to improve Philadelphia by the erection of magnificent buildings—then come two well known hotels, opposite each other; one known as the " White horse" and; the other as the "Black horse." In the days of long ago, these public resorts were "far out into the country." The ear turns west into Jefferson street passing by immense saw -mills, and other ex! tensive, busy hives of industry, until reaching Second street. At the corner of these two streets the T. MICHAEL'S CIIIIRCH, of the Catholic Order of religions architecture, stands. Two _pretty, well developed flank. ing towers have - been erected, one of them being nearly finished. When this work shall have been completed, then St. Michael's, for beauty, will take rank with any other Catho lic Church in this city, excepting the Cathe dral. CFI KIST 011IITICII.1 This venerable building, though handsome in its proportions, yet shows neglect. There can be no valid reason why it should be left Wreathed with the cobwebs of time. Even old gentlemen, now-a-days, dye their gray hairs, if not to live young again, at least to appear so. Why then should not old Christ, Church be "done up „ to suit the timesl The front brick work to some extent is in . as wretched a condition - as the old alms-house wall that disfigured Spruce street many years ago. with ft very little outlay the exterior 9 this building could be much improved, and thus become more than usually attractive. A more substantial building than this never was erected in Philadelphia. Passing by this, and proceeding over a route possessing many in cidents of Revolutionary thnes,we let the neW market house pass in review, and observe the SOUTHWARK LIBRARY HALL, a four-story brick building, on Second street, nearly opposite. German. One of the members informed us that the building has a masticated front, and contains a very large and valuable library ; many Of its volumes being rare, and which if lost could not be readily replaced. Re. ceasing some distance to the east line of the street, adjoining the library hall, is the THIRD BAPTIST CHURCH, a brick building, covered with brown mastic, It is one of the oldest churches in this section of the city, of the Baptist denomination. SOUTHWARK HALL This time-honored place can boast of an illu minated clock that has the merit of being cor rect twice in every twenty-four hours. Some times it goes, and then again it does not; the reason is because the machinery is worn Ont. This hall, in its day, was considered a model structure. It is the same in its proportions and finish as the City Hall, Wilmington, Dela ware. It is used for police purposes. Passing on this part of the route, the passenger will presently Observe the shot tower of Mr. Sparks. This is a very high circular building, located on St. John strept, east of Second. IVECCACOE GRAMMAR SCHOOL This well constructed building is located at the corner of Reed street, almost joining its eastern end with the Shiftier steam lire-engine house. It is well attended by the young folks of that vicinity. From this point to the ter minus there are many interesting incidents. The YELLOW CIOTTAGid stood, until within a few years, on the east side of Second, below Greenwich street. It was a place of great resort, and many gay and festive scenes mark its history. From here southward, were a number of old homesteads, but all these have been numbered with the things that were, and modern structures till their places. The following is a brief account of a GHOST STORY, rife in that part of the city for many years The homestead of an irascible fellow, of Eng_ lish origin, who belonged to the aristocracy prior to the American Revolution, who, it is said, figured in the celebrated tournament in honor of lung George the Third, that took place in the old Wharton house, on South Fifth street, was located a short distance below the spot once adorned by the Yellow Cottage. It is related that this crusty old fellow lived nearer the heart of the city. On a certain Christmas eve he ordered John to gear up the horse and carriage, to drive to the old home stead. The order was obeyed. The aristocra tic specimen of British loyalty entered the carriage, and was soon at the homestead. To present a distinguished appearance he wore a chapeau and sword. The night was very cold, for the bleak, north winds had an unintel rupted sweep over the country. Shortly be' fore midnight he ordered John to get the horse and carriage ready, in order to return to the city. John was so entirely benumbed with the severity of the atmosphere that he did not respond as quickly as the gay "lord'' desired. The impatient old fellow went to the door, to ascertain why the carriage was not ready. He called out, "John! John !" Presently John appeared on the porch, but was so cold he could not articulate clearly. hY don't you get the torse ready l" shout ed the lord of the manor. John made no reply, for the reason above stated; all he said was, " Moister." "Moister !" shouted back the lord, "is the 'woe deadln at the Wine Lime drawing his sword. John became frightened, and started back. The lord, cith one flourish of his sword, de capitate(' the liveried servant, bnt his . bloofl being frozen, the purple title of life did not Bow, It was no particular harm in those dais for a lord to cut the head off a mere ser vant in fact, it was considered gown what Chi• valrou . s: So tradition says• Ever after this event the homestead became haunted ; anti on Christmas Eve, for• many years, some of the most daring of the super stitious.people Who lived in those days re paired to the vicinity of the place to watch for the return of the ghogt, Many Owed the head less man used to Walk up and down the porch three times, at three minutes before the hour of midnight, and then disappear. It has been many years since the headless ghost was last seen. We have been unable to discover any person of the past three generations who had an ocular demonstration of the apparition. THE PURPLE AND ELISE. This is about the only building left standing in this section connecting the present with more than a century since. Moore street was opened and dedicated to public use about ten years since. A earner Of the building came in the way of the street line, and it was partly hewn away. The old building is still tenanted. Sixty years since, it was the 'resort of the wealthy classes, who drove there on pleasant afternoons, or even during the long evenings of winter. Ilow the name of purple and blue originated we could not exactly learn. We have a traditionary account. It seems there were two classes of aristocrats prior to the Revolution, who Were distinguished from each other by the wearing of purple or blue. One set considered themselves better than the other, and thus society was divided. As time passed on, there was an gnglish tournament held in that place, which brought the maleon. tents together, and finally they relinquished their notions of superiority in regard to no- ble blood, and from this fact it is supposed the name originated. The house was subsequently called the Shepherdess, a sign to this effect being displayed. The old folks of these times, were buried in family vaults, on the premises, and there are descendants living in affluence in this city, who were appalled fifteen years or so ago to learn that the tombs had been in vaded by " Young America," thb skulls of 301110 of the bodies removed, and used to bail out boats. All these relics of the days of long ago have long since disappeared, and uow the ter ritory thereabouts is filled with many rows of comfortable houses, where the people live in happiness and Prosperity. The car passes along Second and turns up Mifflin street, the northern boundary of the immense stove works of North, Chase, North • and sweeping around into Third street;the immense Pascal Iron Works, with its large improvements recently made by Morris, Teske; & Morris, will be observed, with its steaming pipes and busy hum of in dustry. We may here state that the old South wark Canal, a swindle of former days, passed from east to west. It never was finished, how ever. The Delaware owl, into which the tide ebbed and flowed, was used by the Baptists as a place for baptising the converts to that church. The waters of the canal have long since ceased to flow, and the place is improved by the building of many tenements, inhabited by industteaUS working classes. The Rich mond brancß of this great railway shallreceive due attention. Paris Fashions for August. Among the bost of bonnets invented by the inexbaustible ingenuity of the Parisian mo distes, the chapeax empire, for ceremonial IMrPOses, are the adopted favorites. They are simply ornamented with a swallow, a eOlibri, or a bird's wing placed upon corn or upon a little verdure; as for gold and steel ornaments and spangles, are no longer patronized. In the way of fancy hats, round black chapeaux with white or blue feathers, and yellow straw with black feathers, are the most distinguisha ble. An agreeable innovation le the ffeneraladop. tion of white,, blue, or green auze veils for all descriptions of bonnets. They should be very long, and thrown on one side, so as to drape gracefully, and not be turned over the bonnet, when desired to be removed while in conversation, or for greater freedom of respi ration. >•;ven with fancy lints we have seen many of these graceful veils, a yard long, worn with much advantage, particularly by youthful ladies. Walking Dress.- - Plain slate colored foulard robe. Blue silk casette open at the, sides, and trimmed round the edge and on the corsage with black passementerie. The small and simple bonnet is in blue crape, rouched, but Without any other ornament. Morning Dress. Nankeen colored taffeta robe, ornamented over the seams and round the bottom of the Skirt with black silk pinked ruching; the corsage a basones is trimmed over the seams in a correspondimr manner. Rice chip bonnet, "ornamented with black lace and ears of Indian corn. , . . . Dress for the Seaside. —The whole of this toilet is in very light gray muslin. The skirt is drawn up and ornamented On each width by blue sills eording,tniShing with tassels. The lower jube, as well as the ample capucin scarf, is also trimmed with blue silk cording. Pale rose-colored parasol, with carved wooden handle. . . Dress for a Little Boy.—An this costume is in gray jean, the long rest and the trowsers be ing ornamented with stripes of red woratea. The double-pointed waistcoat is fastened with coral buttons. The cravat and the band round the black straw Derby hat are both in scarlet silk. DEATH OF AN Y. a-SLAVE AT A NEW JERSEY ALMSHOUSE—HIS WILL.—An ex-slave named Denison, who bad been employed at Taylor's Hotel, Jersey City, died at the county alms house, on Snake Hill, a couple of days since. At the request of the dying man, a lunatic named Nelson wrote the following will : AUGUST 3,1335.. I, Aaron Denison, of Hudson-county Alms house, State of. New Jersey, but a riative•born of Newhern, Carroll county, State of North Carolina, where I had lived as a slave until the spring of MO, from whence I came to these parts, do make and declare this to be my last will and testament: I leave to Mr. Nelson Rollins, who has been attending me, one coat, one pair of pantaloons one neck-tie, one vest bosom and collars, together with three shirts, one black hat, and the ring on my finger. his Ainolf 'k DENISON. mark. In presence of Mr. Rollin Nelson. This includes the trunk with its contents. Tim NATURE OF llmatonns.—The London Athenaeum says : Professor Ciceppert , s long ex pected prize essay "On the Vegetable Nature of Diamonds" has . recently been published, illustrated by colored plates. Experiments show that diamonds cannot be produced.by Plutoni agency, as they become black when subjected to a high degree of temperature. That they , are on the contrary, of - Neptunian Origin, and wore at one time m a SOU conch. Lion, is proved not only by the impressions of grains of sand and crystals on the surface of some of them, but also by inclosures of certain foreign bodies, such as other crystals, germi nating fungi, and even vegetable structures of a higher organization. If Prof. Gceppert's con clustonS be accepted, confirming and extend ing as they do the views held by Newton, Brewster, and Liobig, diamonds seem to be the final product of the chemical decompo sition of vegetable substances. AN INvsNmioN.—A life-preserving raft has been invented .and successfully tried. It is c:9111.2.9eed. of three air-tight cylinders, made of India rubber or gotta o,Tlin dere are each encased in another made of heavy clink, connected by duck flanchers. On the raft are Ave " tants," running . crosswise, which act for the double purpose of a seat and as a stretcher to keep the cylinders apart. Each Cylinder contains when filled sixty-nine cubic feet Of air, or two hundred and seven in the three, which are capable Of sustaining eight thousand pounds weight. Eighty per sons have been carried at one tithe on this raft. It can be inflated by means of three bellows, with India rubber hose, which can be attached in ten minutes. It weighs but six hundred pounds when full. When afloat it draws only three inches of water, and is pro pelled by means of six oars or by sails. THE MoamoNs.----Brigham 'Nang and twenty or thirty of his hierarchy, on horseback and in carriages, started for the Southern settle ments a couple of days ago. They range for one to three hundred miles southeast, to keep their constituents in the faith, lay plans for further Church and. State aggrandizement, and post them on the " policy to be pursued for the time being.—The Daily Union VicletU,Sall Lake Oily, U. T., ‘Tuly 12. LINEN MANUFACTORIES—From the census re port of manufactures now approaching com pletion the following extracts are taken, ex hibiting the total manufacture of linen goods in the - United States for 1890! ten establiSh ments.; $05%797, capital inveeted. cost of raK material,o2,77o ; hands employed, 525-251 male, 277 female; cost of labor, $115,015; annual value of product, ea 52,570. CITY ITEMS. CLOTHING iron I.tnTUUNL•io SOLDIERS,--Now that thousands of returned soldiers are chang ing their military for civil apparel, we cannot do them a greater service than in directing them to the celebrated old Clothing il:..tablisli incnt of Alessr s. C. Somers 8: Son, .No. 625 Chest nut street, under Je.yne's Hall. Their Stock is one of the finest Mut most extensive in the city, and their uniform custom of selling suits to soldiers, at the lowest prices, is Most com mendable. THE BEST FITTING SHIRT OE THE /LSE is "The improved Pattern Shirt," made by John C. Arrison, at the old stand, Nos. 1 and S North Sixth street. Work done by hand in the best manner, and warranted to give satisfaction. His stock of Gentlemen's Furnishing Goods cannot be surpassed. Prices moderate. VISITORS TO TUN SEA-SSONE Should provide themselves with BATHINO Daseens frotti JOHN C. Amosox's, Nos. l and 3 North Sixth street. TOR " CHINIESIC Sax HAT," Sold by Wood a CART, 725 Clestuut street, is really indispen sable to every lady about leaving the city. Their entire stock of Straw and Fancy Goods is now selling oft at much below cost. Tur, ATLANTIC CABLE.—The cable seems to have suspended operations. Seven hundred miles had been paid out, and then the thing "guy out," and remained as mute as a mouse. We regret this result for several TeASOIIS, bait Principally because unless they can remedy the defect, we shall not be able to send an in tended despatch to the Prince of Wales, Lord John Russell, and Lord Pahnerston, recom mending them all to procure their Sunday clothes at the Brown Stone Clothing hlalt of Reekhill t Wilson, Nos. 603 and 605 Chestnut street, above Sixth, Philadelphia. THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHS of the late Bishop Potter, taken a short tune before his leaving the city, can be obtained at Cremer 6; Dillorri , ;, ls South Eighth street. SEVEN-Tri For sale at a discount, In sums to suit, b 3 Dittan, & CO„ `• cull 5t ii South Third street. W. HENRY PATTER'S West•end Window Sllade, Curtain, and Upholstery Store, INS Chestnut street. auloat NSW AND 137Ccown-rtAxn PZAnros FOR RUT, and portion of rent applied to purchase. Also, new and elegant pianos for sale on accommodating terms. GOULD, jyl4-2m Seventh and Chestnut. EYE, EAR, AND CATARRH suceessfull2, treatea by J. Isaaes,, OctAht and /Wrist, 510 Pine street. Artificial oyes inserted. No charge for examination. V, • Great nosh of Emigrants to America. PIPIT:IM THOUSAND POLES ON THE 'WAY of the .London Globe, [Paris Covresponden9C July 28.1 Emigration en masse to North America is contemplated by the fifteen thousand Polish refugees DOW dispersed among the Swiss can tons, and they are in active comMuniCation with Washington, through their delegate, Kownikolski, about the terms on which they would be received as agricultural laborers in the States. The Helvetic Diet has already voted a subsidy to each? emigrant of one hun dred and eight francs, and it, is expected that the French Government will place some of its transport Ships at tfieir disposal for convey ance to their place of destiny. TRYING TO STEM TUN CIIIIRRNT. [Si seliholmCorrespondenee attendee Post,Jul3l7.) In Norway they continue to deprecate the extent to which emigration from that country to America is still carried on. The departure of her Stalwart sons from a country so thinly populated is naturally regarded as a great ca lamity ; but though• this expatriation of her people had been going on for some time, it was not until 1849 that It had assumed such proportions as to excite alarm, and yet since that time it has been steadily on the increase, having in 1853 reached six thousand and fifty persons, In 1557 the number having risen to six thousand ivex hundred and sixty, and having in lull attained its Maximum of eight thousand eight hundred and fifty. It may be satisfactory to Englishmen to know that of these at least two-thirds em barked for Canada, while only one-third went to the United States, though there is rea son toear that many of those who intended 'to go to the British provinces /mid WO' destination after wards changed, and that consequently many have fallen victims in the /ate war. In Sweden no correct returns of those who have emigrated can be obtained. There is good reason to believe that the average nuna herwho have embarked_ from Sweden for trans- Atlantic ports has pot annually exceeded fif teen hundred, which, when °emptiest]. with the number of those who are known to have sailed from the less "populous Kingdom of Norway, affords convincing proot of the greater degree of contentment which prevails' In this than in that portion of this united Kingdom. A Sanswr. SWINDLING Or FIRATIOS DPMECTIAD. —The Cincinnati papers notice the detection of a shrewd swindling operation which was at tempted in that city on Saturday morning last. It appears that early on the morning stated, the house of James It. Louis & Co., in that city, received a hill of lading for thirty-live barrels Of petroleum oil, purported to have been shipped by Silas Trumbull, of Pittsburg, on the steamer Centralia: The bill of lading was regularly signed, and appeared to be genuine. Accompanying the bill of lading, in another envelope, was a letter purporting to have been written by Silas Trumbull, in which he no tified Messrs. Louis & Co. of the shipment, and requesting them to honor a draft upon tlielr house for the sum of ninety-eight dollars, ad vanced charges, when the draft was presented for payment - . Suspicion was created by the fact that the envelope containing the letter was post-marked "Cincinnati," instead of "Pittsburg," and was sufficient to put the cashier on the alert. Some hours afterwards, the draft for ninety-eight dollars, above al luded to, was presented by a young man, or dering that sum to be paid to the order of William Ross. The bearer,giving his name as - William G. Chatman, being closely questioned, admitted that the draft was a forgery, and stated that be had nine .or ten similar drafts on well-known houses in the city, he merely acting as " agent" for another party. Chattuan was arrested, and a man giving the name of George Chapot was also taken into custody, Chapot had several drafts similar to the above in his possession,. and also two forged drafts, for one hundred and thirty dollars each, on the : First National Bank of Pittsburg, signed by W. B. MeCutcheon. Both of the parties were placed in confinement. • A reRSODT who "keeps tally" of everything he reads, gives the following aggregates of - American casualties by fire and wreck from January 1,1843, to July 1,1303--twenty-two and a half years Whole number of fires 5,615 Whole number of buildings com sumed 291,210 Whole number of shipwrecks 1,822 Whole number of lives lost thereby 271,115 Cotton destroyed—pounds' 1,579,672,000 Total losses by fire and wreck Ai2,004003,000 FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. The money market continues very easy at about six per cent. for loans on Government bonds and other prime securities. The dis bursements by the Treasury Department, and the continued additions to the national banks! currency, are causing au accumulation of loair able funds, which is likely to find a Vent this fall in stock and other speculations. The stock market continues very dull. Government loans meet a steady inquiry, with sales of ten forties at 97—no change ; and five-twenties at 109 —an advance of The seven-thirties were steady at 99 , 4% State loans were a trifle better, the lives selling at 99 1 4., and the war-loan sixes at 100. New City sixes were in good de mand at a further advance of 1, sales being made at 91. The municipals sold at 91%. The railroad share list was inactive but firm. Reading was in moderate demand at a slight advanee. Catawissa preferred sold at 25%—an advance of % ; and Pennsyl vania Railroad at sG34—a decline of %; 123 was bid for Camden and Amboy ; 29 for Little Schuylkill; 56 for Norristown; 63 for Lehigh Valley; and 23% for Catawissa Railroad pre , ferred. Bank stocks were held firmly, with no sales; 180 was bid for - North America; 112 for Philadelphia; 11734 for Farmers' and Me. chanics' ; 45 for Penn Township; and 52 fur Girard. In passenger railroad stocks there is nothing doing; 7 was bid for Seventeenth and Nineteenth ; 21 for Spruce and Pine ; and 10,4" for Race and Vine. There was some little movement in canal stocks at previon9 figures. Schuylkill Navigation COMM= brought 54; for Lehigh 54,1 was bid ; 80 for Morris • 1 for Union common, and 2 for the preferred; and 9 for Susquehanna and Tidewater. Oil stocks Continue dull at about former prices. The only sales of coal stocks ivere Big Mountain at 5, and Locust Mountain at 42. The following were the quotations for gold yesterday at the hours named 10 A. M 12 M 1 P. 31 - • 3 P. M Gold is without special excitement. The premium continues steady. The demand from importers is quite active ; but it is probably an off-set to a large extent by the sales of the Treasury Department_ It is presumed that after the Iffib, when the interest on seven thirties fall due, for which it is supposed the sales of gold are intended to provide, the treasury will discontinue its sale of coin. About two weeks ago the principal officers of tllo 'cow York coot al Brilroad Company, with some Eastern capitalists, took a trill along the lines of some of the Western rail roads, with a view of selecting anarrow guage route for a through line West, which is to con. nect with-the Central road at Buffalo. The re suit of the visit was the selection of the Lake Shore, cievelaad and Toledo, Sandusky, Dar ton and Cincinnati (from Clyde to Dayton,) and the now air-line road from Dayton to Cin cinnati, which latter is to be constructed by the New York Central Company. This new route takes in a majority of the best cities in New York and Ohio—Cincinnati, Dayton, Spring field, Urbana, Tiffin, Sandusky, Cleveland, Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, and New York. The Wilmington and Weldon road is now carrying all freight, regardless of quality or quantity, and giving receipts for its delivery at the place designed. GoVernment officers, in whose charge the road now is, will be 101111(1 at almost every station along the line of tra vel, ready to accommodate shipping by the road at all times. Upon the East Tennessee and 'Virginia Rail• road, regular passenger trains are now run ning ftem Knoxville to Jouesborough. Spe .cial trains Convey passengers and freight to Carter's depot, 12 miles further, which is the present terminus of the road. The receipts of gold at New York from Cali fornia this year compare - with the amount re ceived during, the same time in 1504 as follows: 11114. I HO. January 5..... 4I" s24l,774;sTaoaary 4 11,1.19.850 January 17 305,6081 January 2.1 383,1011 January 28 324,8634mm:try 27 511.1156 February 6 365,9381 February 5 630,413 February 13 452,970 February 14 205,322 Feb. 28 and Mar. 6 915,415 Mardi 7 1,237,811 Mardi 15 865,5501 March 15 4:31 3 16:3 31ar. 27 and April 6 576,774 April 5 1,4•4,61, April 14 270,51 Anril 13 632,524 April QS ~. 252,370 April 20 60,676 May 5 274,512,May 4 631,201 Nay 11; 383,428 May 15 223,370 May 27 275.529;Ma3' 21 307,903 June 5 - 250: 3461J1ine S 570.210 June 14 :tad 16 473.1'004 1 ,1 me 25 180,2.57 July I' 171.897:Ju1y 10 7:13.175 July 19 and 29 539,1110;Ju1y 21 2.0.029 August 5 281,203 , August. 0 724031 Total. ----1 96,855,2171 Total 4i10,618.1017 Excess this year • 3,732 750 American stocks were quoted in. London on the oth ult. as follows :- United States -2O yrs, 1582,6 ? cent.. 65 1 ,4(@7139:) , 1 ;Virginia State, 5 cent 45 Q5O Do., 6re cent 37 @39 Atlantic and Great Western, Ne‘sr, iOrk Section, lstinort.,l2.9o, 7? cent 72 @74 Do. 2d mort., 1581, 7 l eent. (c 074 Do. I'eunSylti aniu,lst m0rt.,1877.... 70 (079 Do. Pennsylvania, 2d inert., 1382.. 70 @72 Erie shares,Slot) (all paid) 54; 4 1' .051 X Illinois Ceral, cent, 1975 79 Do. $lOO shares (all paid) , 80'!@81%Marietta and Cincinnati Itailrean Bonds, 7qa cent 63 WO Panama. RailrOad, 2a men., 7 111 cent 143 OM Pennsylvania Railroad Bonds, 94.1 wort., e 13 cent., convertible @B-1 Do. tii.so shares 35 WO With reference to American securities Sat ; ertliwaitets London Circular says We have to report a drill and declining mar ket for London and American securi [les du ring the past week. This has been induced partly by shipments of stock received from America, and partly by sales on coot Mental account. %t here markets have been very Rat and almost daily declining. United States Ave-twenty bowls: have given Way to 70,111i nois shares to 88, and Brie to 82. 1 A and from these points there has been only a slight reac tionin riot-twenties and illinots, while for Erie we note during the last few days an ac tive inquiry, many parties appearing as buy ers on the tixpectation of a good dividend, and deeming.present quotations low for a line bay in., such large receipts. They close very strong at td. Drexel C. Co. (mote New United States Tionds,1881.106;4(0,10i U. S. Certificates of Indeht's (new) 1)7N4 'l, 1 certinentes of lndebt , s aSq@tos U. S. Seven-Thirty Notes ......... MU@ :89:4 Quarterrtlasters> • Vouchers 4i'; it) ta t scders for certif, of Indebtedness., Cioldditta Sterling Exchange tr.,4 1 4(@1511 Five-Twenty Bonds (old) 1012,431.138 Five-Twenty Bonds (new) .......:::..704> 7 . 7 1U5 Ten-Forty Bonds eoya 97)4 --- Sales of Moe] 1.11.. E PUB L: RN:McCrea & Ober IL .44: ]CO (to 1,30 _ hs, August 10. IC BOARD. 400 Keystone ..... ~,. 3.i l S WO do 1 1 .1 100 do IQ MO do 5301.44 100 do 130 1.14 100 Maple Shade t'l 5110 Walnut I.old. b3O i. lO - 1-10 WO ..„ 100 do ,630 ~ 5 00 do - 1)10 - .1 100 Wm Penn 0-1130 .1. " .. 100 - do 1,30 • 1.!- , .S rwo garde Farm i -DO do 1 100 St Nicholas .I''l 100 do ' 1.31 100 do 1,30 1(4 100 Jersey Well 116 /Oa Caldwell ICO Tho Ilm tier 011-- -:. ;xi POO (10 . se 110/F.Nce1.,1.-..- ..91! an do MO .Ai i ! 2110 00 NW .56' 200 do 630 .56 11/1. ( io. .......... 1 0.1 .50! 2ro .1 Mill .00 200 d 0........... 1.130 .58 30 10Si hat) -IA; 1111)1g° - z .10 2'... iptowal - ret rol -- . 5 - 1 WO ilo - - - .81. tOCI 2CO St 1` icLolas, 200 Caldwell.... 100 Curtin 00011 - alnot Isld —1)30 IC4) do 1 AT THE REGULAR Reported 6u Newt, MUM FIRST 11000 U S 5.205.1t5.Cp.100 1000 10... Ne.w.Cp.104:74 17000 US 10-40s.ltS.Cp. 07 5701757.30 TN 2000 State :is 500 City Gs New 003.4 6000 Lelaut Os '7o.lts. 94 /209.11111 g R 53 Br.TWEE 10007.01110) Ss -70 ' 94 200 Maple Shade 714 100 do.• ....... 100' do .. ... cash 7; 4001 - royal Pet..../ots ! 1 •4 100 Lormd - M0ut..b30.42 2.50 Ktmlir Dale 2.1(i 000 State 58 00 Cameron 903 100 on OH 1.16 22 Penna R b 5 50M SECOND 4000 City Os New 2dys OVA 1000 do 2dys 9114 1000 do 2dys 2000 do 2dys 9134 SOO do, M1101C11)111 9 1 :1 100 Realig It cash 58,11 AFTER 200 500 do St N 1.4410h01as 011.. 1% .e 5 100 Shityl Nal(...3dys 2:411 200 (10 85 231 f 100 234 150 Hestonv'e 1051; SALES AT 100 Cataw Pref...1)50 *Xi 100 141 g Tank b 5 11.6 200 St Nicholas 1,14 100 Reading It 53 4 1, 100 do 2dys 209 do 53 , 1 t 100 d0.,,,2dy5&191 &434 . ' 100 d 0..... 103641nt 53U The New 'fork Post of last evening Gold is dull and lower. The was 143%, and at the close 1.13 1 /, was Exchange is more firm and native 100 for Dankers and I.ofitgelol4% for mth.; The loan market IS Inactive and plied at 6@7 '33 cent., with few traniate6%'; 6. Commercial paper is quipt at 749, • The stock market is dull, hutprleos ;, r4 Before the first 'session New York c. 714 i, was quoted at WA; Erie at 87%; Dm," at 118; MC' igan Southern at 1N Qkv ,, 4 • - and Pittsburg at 71; orthwestw, ; Northwestern preferred at 63%. After the board the market was strativ,}4 advanced to 88Y.; Michigan soul hers Northwestern Preferred to Fort tv,.. fell off to 97%. The rest of the railtem' - were unchanged. Later, Erie sold st ArmisT 10—Ereinoi There is no quotable change in Flota the market is firm at previous rate'', iltc! quirt' being chiefly` for the medium and bit. grades, which are getting scarce. We lum: no sales for Shipment, and tits tr inultetion ,„ mostly to supply the trade, at prim, from $0.50@7.50 for superfine, s7,7:ifar,,, for t , tras, $8.75@0.50 for , extra faintly, i,n,T l fancy lots, according to the brand and fre,, MBE.. Rye Flour and Corn Meal are unelfm 4 , and quiet, and we hear Of no salem of out* GRAlN.—There is not much Wheat olf,rt i , and the holders are firmer in their sales reach about 7,500 bus at reds, chiefly at $2 for Western, and for white. Bye is scarce and selling which is an advance. Cern quest at 97008 e for mixed anti yellow,,o; small sales 41 , the latter figure. thlt*UN about 3,000 bum sold at 50c for new, and old, the latter in store. Barley and quiet. BARK.-Ist No. 1 Quereitron i scarce, a 4,1, demand at $32.50 ift ton. Corwox rules dull and neglected, al sales very small at 46e for Middling:4, Or:octant% are arm ; about 30u 111111, Sugar sold for refining mostly at t boxes white Havana at 11 1 4;c, all via. No e of Coffee. Pooviszorrs.—There is no change ft the ket, and a very small business tieing way of sales. WHISKY continues dull and unsettled The following are the receipts of nom GiAlti at this port to-tluy; pour. Wheat Corn Oats Pittsburg Petroleum Market, Augusi The Pittsburg Commercial snys: The oat: lit% presented but few Chaag,oB—nolliit• particular notice. The receipts by the including the amount dropped at the rtes on the way, amounted to 4,C11; log:- Thus it will be perceived that, notwithiu: ing the low water in the Alleghem - ,.& floats down stream. It was rturtoie.i Qr. landing that oil had further advanc, (11 Creek, These reports Should be reeeit. I .:, caution. Preights centinue identylkiiit'l7 at good figures. The demand for crab ; principally for small pareels, at twenty for the raw material, without the and occasionally a sale transpires bekw: oil, however, being generally of vity. On the other hand, we Mid ellekr:: Of 'heavy oil rated highor, These Juir(!• , course, without the packages. St the!..n!, ready to depart on the first rise of the following passenger packets*: hln Leclaire No. I, Petroha No. 2, lithe N0..1. trolia and Refilled Oils were ed. The demand has fallen off for preit;: ii future delivery. The sales were only Slidell way. New York Markets, August 10 iIItIiADSTUFFS.—TiIe, market for :state 1: Western Flour is 15@:25e better; sales I:r bbls at 00@1t25 for superfine Slate; tUSiv for extra State; Se:l5@CM for choice 0.30 for superfine Western ; 55.0:47 for eon, to medium extra Western, and. Katz for 0.. %On to good shipping brands extra ror hoop Ohio. CilliadilLll flour is liSlOc bev4 sales 500 bbls at SU.TeoO6.IIO for common.. $74C60.25 for good to choice extra. tiout::. Flour is firmer . ; sales nne bbls at 57.00,ri;:1::1: common, and 5n.30re,12.50 for fancy anti et Rye Flour is quiet. Corn Meal is quiet. Wheat is excited and th@rie better; sal , l 95,000 bushels at 81.500,51 for No. 1 Milivaac 51.556;105 for winter red Western, and amber 3fiehigan. nye is firmer and 9t., Barley is quiet. Barley Malt is dull. Oats, 2@ 3e better, with sales at 05@titic for Wel The Corn market is lgle better; Salts of bushels at Me for unsound, and st , ,q;e! sound mixed Western. 144 113 , ),4 1413' .144 143 1 5 Bovigiotts.The Pork Matte( is lower; sales of 0,800 bids at 4333,1g.33,3 ,, new mess ; $29 for 0334 do,. $24 for prim tll) for prime mess. The - Mein/D.oaq i he, sales of 500 bbls at about previous price, Beal - lams are quiet. Cut Meats are stm, sales 550pkgs atls@l7e for shoulders:3l,J t, 231i.e for hams. The Lard market is ill's': 1,060 bbls at 1914 WHISKY is (WU at $2.18 offered and for Western, TALLOW is in good demand : sales ln,ol at 11%013e. MARINE INTELLIGENCE, PORT OP PHILADELPHIA. Autgnol RUN RIBES MGR WATER Arrived. Brig J IY iffirris (Br), Davison, S' Matanzas, with sugar awl inoltmo J. Mason &, Co. _ Brig Allantlalc (Br), Atarsh, 15 din? is Aricabo, P it, with sugar and inolat , John Mason t Co. Brig Moses Day, Loud, 20 days from Tr dad, with sugar and molasses to S & Sehr Hero (Of Georgetown . , D 00m ,bound with 00, pour tq al to c.:; tics, New - 1 ork. On Sunday last, Island, Chesapeake Bay, was struck squall, which caused the vessel to leak N. and carried away her foremast; beim: sulking condition, put into this pert 1 ,1 pairs. Seim Streanilet, Stokes, a days front 14 more, with mils° t.O.T 4t Jitsitritt, Bchr Eldorado, Parka, 2 clay's Ma/ inure, with mdse to J T Justus, Schr J A H Dixon, Creighton, from W. ington, in ballast to J . T J ustus, Seim Wind, Brown, from Washington, la last to captain. Sall' Lizzie Batchelder, Eng,ligt, from ton, in ballast to Blakiston, Gran; Schr Ettie Dail, Fleming, I day frow rica, with grain to Jas L Bewley & 1.2 Steamer :Vinland, Monday, as hour , Richmond, Vu, with sth Pennsylvania 1„;:e to U S Quartermaster. August 1001. off the Powder wharf, Delaware I:lver t ,, Howard, of sth Pennsylvania Cavalry , l , Mjumped overboard, and was itrowityd.,. ailed from St Clair, Schuylkill wrap where he leaves a finally. Steamer D Utley, Davis, 24 hours iroa..l York, with Incise to Wm M Baird & Co. Steamer if E Pairchilds. Trott t, 21 honr; New York, with anise to W M Baird & CO, - Bark. Witch, LOtk e l, l a n lrl/ P atr, Brig _Nthtins, Barrett, Behr E L Stevens, Studley, l'orthma• Schr J W Lindsay, Boyce, Schr ltap labannoek Russell, utdilmot Behr J A Il Dixon, Creighton. ..De xas Schr Streamlet, Stokes, Alexandria. Sebr 'Eldorado, Parks, IVashington. Setn3 .S N Sznith,DiSkUy, Boston, Schr L Day, Hackney, iiieglutin. Schr 7. Batehehler,English, - 11o,=ton. Schr.W W Itlerey,Barrett, lio4 on. St , r J S Shriver, Dennis, Dallintote. [Correspondence of the PlMailelphia" 63ug Ltwss, Del., The ship Pernix, from Phi ladell'o'h bee, remains at the prealtivater, Ney being ashore at this plllO O Northern-henna schooners awl td,:k, Franklin, with an excursion party rine, are also in the harbor. ‘). lours, J. ILIILEN'a DO, Memoranda. St eitttithip Xorth Star, Jonas, from \`itr for 244.)w Drloan% was pasoe4 Stit brero. Ship Hampton Court, Davison, cleita London Will ult for iturrachec. Ship John Watt, Poole, sailed I lem 0 1 , 27th ult for Singapore. Brig I'rcntlis Qljhs MOrtsitn, cleared land fith lust for this poet. t 3011 . 73 Brig . Petrel, McKenzie, bailee, at Bth inst. C " ' Artg Kennedy, ,and sth inst for this port. Brig Abbie Larrabee, Carlisle, soils'' Providence sth hist for this port, Sehr L Vanderroort, Baker, frool,, for this port . , at Sex' York on Wed tly=a, Fchr rightingtOM Thant:El `' Boston Stb hist for this port'• I GO' Selir P, Thompson, sailed iron best fur tis ort. sch r Sarah : , Benson, sailed from el% Silt fast for this port. sows .1 Bleecker, Nosh, St a hnd. " nailed front Pr OV itiellee, " ; SOB! Mary Furrow, Cooden, keen' baryport Bth inst IV '' Soh rs Commit Matilda, :Bartle, an Dennis, Lake, sailed from Pal I Id for this port. Schrs Marshall Perrin, Bedford for this port, and from Prollilifliee for do, sailed freir sth lest.n. - Selits A If Manchester, 'Miriam , 10 .; Cargill, Kelley, and D E (Cell.'". I!;; Boston for this port, at Buss Rive! Marine 'Ogretinny . Steamer Clayptoutit, or and trio ,1 dolphin. for Norfoik, via canny 011.1.:.)!! feet,stater, off .31agothy .itonday evening test. tier lowerlich: water, Lighters have been seat Sehr Eva Belle, Lee, froml'hih r lilarhichead, with a cargo of (.4.4 1 , ellrly on r3aturdey morning. der!!! : ';•3 fog, about lifteen miles SWrrom • prnpeller VICIAF, COIL, rim Norwa' delphi.a. The Kill 11010 lnut litor , l! , „ , • hvr headgear carried away, llniv nxtreceived other thnengo, hadl , dantageti On the port liov , , to Sow I.ontlen on Saturday schooner in tow, where they r I!: ' 1 2:0 ) Wllto P. 1.1.1• „ 300 Winslow . '' "".:% aiost um 200 St St N1(.11011;:::: OARD OF B it , k " & 0 0 ., 00 U. T 1 ' 50 Selmyl 200 Big 100 00. 50011alzeli ' '''' 200 Jersey- ".. ' 100 Illg •Tw a, ~• 100 'Royal ''''' I 10011[01dt 8101[1I'l• ' BOARDS. 1100 J 01,9 el' 27'0 State %v. ' , NO Reading' '' '• ' )4i 100 d., 100 do o ' . 100 '' : ''''''' t o , 2000 / 1)1 vg 111 :11y 1 ' .4 ) - : , 100 Mingo. hurt : ''''''' BOARD. 50 g e it: 4 : l"it ..ll l ;';l 2ro ........... 50 o . :::: ..... • 100 Rerulg k. ''''' LIE CLOSE 100 Iteztilit tg „ 100 .. qt. 5 0 0 AValatii . i:j:,„,' l "%:' , 150 Tiestoarill;. 1 1 ''' 100 Cataw Prof 1, 100 Selit Nay c 200 (10........ rhilad , elpkift Markets 5 15 I SUN SETS ?, Clark, cleared ;11