SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1865 -We can take no nonce of anonymous sszsmn.. Ideation& We do not return rejected manuscripts. ill-Voltintary correspondence is solicited from all puts of the world, and especially from Our different =MOAT and naealdepartntents. When used. it Will be paid for. THE NEW WORKS OF RErouff. Ever since there was Anything upon Which to operate there has been a constant and feverish desire, on the part of somebody or other, to "reform." Religions and go- Vernments and people have teen renovated 4—changed sometimes with good results, ometimes with bad, and sometimes with rione at all. The manic, or whatever we army call it, has extend-ld from the earliest days down to our own, and found a develop meat wherever there is the slightest room. In our own country, where we are said to be "progressive," our politi cal parties have ehanged with the itlio syncraeies of every leader or the force of every circumstance. Religious denomi nations, transplanted here from the Old World, have rapidly lost their identity, or found a " higher " state of perfection in Fourieritisli nonsense, or Mormon pro fanity and indecency. But, in most cases, our American reforms have been emi nently practical, even though they did not always meet with deserved success. When they failed, they failed because they were too practical, and laid out too much 'Work for the powers of finite men. They were attempted against habits or ideas— parts of huroart nature—so firmly grown or planted as to defy all other power but that of miracles to overthrow or destroy them. Reforms of fashions or attempted reforms, have always jailed, because they were ideas .--realized ones, perhaps, and short-lived— but none the less ideas. Thus realized, they 'were pretty, or comfortable, or unique, as the modistes say. Everybody who was anybody, liked, patronized, and admired them—clinging to them only the more tena ciously when they were the most fiercely sa tirized. And then there was the temperance reform of a quarter of a century ago, directed not so much against the immoderate use of liquors as the immoderate use of tobacco and opium. The attack on the first failed. Old votaries of the weed fumed and chewed in defiance of the innovators, but the opium -eaters, who were fewer then than they are now, were shamed into obscurity,. Where they continued to dream unnatural dreams of fabled paradises, and to ruin at once body and soul. After this crusade came the anti-liquor excitement and the birth of the Mormon monster, not to, say anything of the birth of spiritualism, and the wild efforts to change some of our religious denominations from directions in which they were supposed to be going, to others in which it was sup posed they ought to go. The liquor re form, with the aid of legislative enactments, good examples, numerous meetings, and thrice more numerous speeches, made some little progress, but it eventually died out, leaving alcohol to continue its work of dis grace, poverty, and slaughter. There are to-day, we are bold'to say, in proportion to population, in our city alone, more drinkers than there were twenty, or even five or ten. years ago, despite .the fruit from the good seed the reform must have sown. All these reforms were prominent. We Only mention them because they were so. There were others more quiet, which never blazoned forth their claims to the public eye, only appealing now and then in an Unobtrusive way for monetary aid, al- Ways working softly but energetically, guiding the erring and succoring the needy. They and their merits will ever remain in the gloomy unknown in this world ; but There is a bright, shining entry of their good works, where the entry is most and eternally needed. Vuring the war reforms 'were in abeyance. All our energies, theo retical and practical, were dircetea to the one great work of preserving the Union. We resolved ourselves into a nation of warriors—active and passive—fighting US Well with the pen, the alembic, the Jorge and the needle, as with the bayonet and cannon-shot. No reforms were needed, be Causeall reforms were impracticable then. The only direction in which they could bave been useful was that in which VAL lastaGrum, REED & Co. were supposed to be situated. But these men required not reform, but utter squelching, and they re- Ceived it through the most powerful of all re_ forming agencies—the ballot-box. The Wants of a soldier as a soldier were well at tended to, and so were his wants as a . man. The people, as represented by the Government, the Sanitary and Chris tian Commissions, and other agen cies, were . well employed, and em ployed prayerfully and successfully. But after the war there came attendant evils ; not as bad, to be sure, as pestilence and famine, which are said to follow war, but bad -'';ought in their social and moral effects. When one habitually reads tales of horror and death he becomes used to blood and crime, verifying the maxim that if we see vice too often we embrace where we before despised her. Ifurdere and crimes worse in their character if possible, became rife, and ,found an inappropriate climax in railway disasters. These crimes are occur ring even now. Intemperance in its worst form is becoming everywhere an habitual Vice with too many of our people, until groggeries of every size and every degree of ornamental splendor dot our cities and towns in sad profusion. Irreligion is fol lowing in its tratn, until spiritual coldness and disbelief have begun to be esteemed, in too many instances, an honor more than a Calumny and a shame. The corners, the Streets, the open lots, the taverns, and even the quiet houses, where such of our people as do not sympathize, with the rest of their class, more deluded and more criminal than themselves, prefer to pass their Sundays, are evidences of this. Of course, those who watch the move ments of the world, its changes, its virtues, its crimes, have long ago been aware of these facts, and we find the reformers already moving with true American promp titude. In this city a "temperance re form" is in course of development; but the development is slow, and the means used the same which have failed in -a score of trials. The evil is not struck at the root; the cause remains untouched. Our tem perance orators unwisely essay to destroy the effects—only to convert men who are the slaves of a vicious, degrading habit, by INCirds, denunciations, appeals and exam. ples with which the very victims to whom they appeal have been long familiar. But the temperance movement will have influ ence on the rising generation, and the one which has just arisen, and in that form the efforts should, if properly, sustained, be en tirely successful. But the advice of our temperance men cannot, if empalence proves anything, reach those who have at tained the summit of a terrible habit, or having passed over, are treading the down path. • One of the most curious of the reforms, because in many respects the newest, is that announced, though in bad English, in the following little paragraph : "A movement has been started to form a national society for Christian work am.ongst the masses, like that of the Christian Commis sion amongst the soldiers." in these few words we find expressed a goolidea, even if gigantic labor should be required to carry it out. There was labor for the commissions in the army, and they performed it well_ But the new field which is proposed to be occupied will require far 'More and of an entirely different kind. In the army the wants were all alike ; here our System of society diversifies desires, and the limits of denominational christianity are inore closely drawn. However, the same classesr which have heretofore furnished a field for home mission—a field the rais es:ems have been inade4uate to fill—are pro_ per objects for the grand mission—the Christian crusade against all 'manner of vice and immorality. The idea, as we have said, seems a good one, and on the 27th of September next, when its origina tors meet in Cleveland, we will ascertain how they propose to realize it. Add to these reforms the " clean reform," as it has been called, induced by fear of the cholera, and we have enumerated all the important ones in which the cessation of the war have compelled our active minds to engage. So we go I No dangers seem to daunt—no labors to tire our people. If we only succeed in what we have under taken our country will be a model of neat ness and religion—two things said to be nearly allied together. Physical health will be promoted by sanitary measures, and moral health by pure lives and good examples. THE OLD COTTON CRAP. The heavy wain, laden with fruits ga. thered by man's industry from the bounty of mother Earth, wending its placid way through fields and lanes, has been a fitting and favorite subject for the pen of the poet or the pencil of the artist. The wagon, with itssburden—the witness of past toil and the promise of future plenty—is always pleasing, whether it is calmly pursuing its way among the fragrant hedgerows in the wide, fair realm of English pastoral verse, or slowly drawn by the huge Breton ox, in whose great eye the pencil of ROSA. BO:T -imm has fixed that calm of patience and depth of power in which the ancient poet saw supreme intelligence and beauty. The in-gathering of the harvest has been sung in varied measure, and in every tongue, as the - crowning blessing of the year, and the ever-returning theme is worthy of all the treasures that eloquence and art can layish in its praise. A mere casual paragraph in a letter from the South brought before our mind's eye another picture, as pleasing to the fancy and more gladdening to the heart than any t ision traced in the melodious measures of a poet, and brightened by a warmer hope than ever shed lustre on an artist's canvas, The theme of our new landscape was drawn from a traveller's description of the wagons laden with cotton that are now laboriously tracing their way through the long unused, untraversed lanes and byways of war-desolated Georgia. Where but a few short months ago naught was heard but the heavy march of armed men, the road now re-echoes with the long, low, lumbering creak of the - wain with its Peaceful load, which has, perhaps, been lying hidden in the earth from the grasp of conquering foe, or the harsher clutch of ruthless friend. They have been con quered, but the conqueror has brought peace and security in his train, and the suffering, almost starving, people are tin burying the wealth that they were com pelled to conceal from the rapacity of their party leaders, and are hastening to dispose of it in the markets opened by their de liverers from a thraldom as severe as they ever inflicted upon their slaves. The scene may be a sad one, for the country bears many a mark of the ravages of war; but, in our mind's picture, the ruined house and the bullet-riven tree are in the background, while in front the la borer hopefully wends his way, no longer depressed . with fear or dreading the very morrow's sun, but buoyant and brave in the certainty of future peace and plenty, and smiling as he fancies the gladness of his household when he returns with com forts and luxuries never seen through all the long and weary war. GENERAL M. R. PATRICK, who is the Democratic candidate for State Treasurer in New York, is receiving some.. first-rate notices, not only from the Union press of his own State, but also from the Virginia papers, who know a great deal more about his record than Northern journals. Here is one of them: "The Choice of General Patrick will please that gentleman's many friends in Richmond who admire him for his want of patriotic-vir tues, and for his great love of the notorious Winder." During the late war, when P - ATRICK was Provost Marshal, General of the army, his leanings towards the leaders in the rebel lion, and his considerate, aynost men - Eery - treatment - of such of them as fell into his hands, were so public, that after a while they ceased to be noticed from their commonness. But while he petted his rebel captives, he instituted and continued a most outrageous system of impositions and in sults upon the'representatives of the North ern press. Every representative (and we are proud to say there were but few who were not educated gentlemen), has some story of wrong to tell—wrong which had no excuse, either in his conduct or in care for the good of the service. Any obstacle he could place in the way of the press was placed, and he evinced more ingenuity and energy in this petty work of spite than he did in the discharge of his duty as Provost. Among his staff were men after his own heart—impertinent, overbearing, insulting, miserable little tyrants, who are fortunately now skulking in their native obscurity. 11 hatwas PATRICK'S object in this petty persecution of the newspapers was never known, and none care to know. Informa tion was gained in spite of him. THIS ERA of the world's history will be pre-eminently distinguished hereafter for the impulse it has given to the holy cause of freedom—not the mere freedom involved in a change of rulers, but in the enfran chisement of millions of beings whose an cestors have been held for centuries in the iron bonds of personal servitude. The great emancipation movement in Russia, by which 22,000,000 of serfs have been lib erated forever, has been simultaneous with our liberation of four millions of slaves. It is a singular fact that two powerful nations which have always maintained unusually cordial relations as the two great slave powers of the world, should determine at the same moment, without previous under standing, to destroy a curse which had long been tolerated in each. The force of this significant example has already been ac knowlalaed in Portugal, Brazil and Spain, and it is confidently hoped that slaVery will not survive this generation in any Christian country. We should strive to make our American experiment thoroughly successful, not only for the purpose of ad vancing our national interests, but to ac celerate the emancipation movement in the remaining slave-holding nations. TEE TRADE with the South that has re cently sprung up' is in most instances conducted on an entirely sound and relia ble basis. That section has been entirely deprived of its usual supplies by the ravages of war, and gladly exchanges for them the hidden treasures of cotton, tobacco, and naval stores, that escaped confiscation and destruction, The Southern products, of course, command ready sale at the North, and the Southern merchants are reaping two profits—one upon their Northern goods, and the other upon the articles they receive for them. We trust our merchants and shippers will spare no pains to secure a Mir proportion of this commerce. No point lifts $0 many natural advantages for supplying the wants of the South as Phila delphia. THE FENIANS" are in trouble both in tilt; country and in Ireland—the country of their ambitions and hopes. They have been publicly condemned in the United States by at least four Catholic bishops, and a majority of the Catholic clergy in Ire land. The ranks of the association are principally recruited from among Catholic Irishmen, so that its prosperity and pro gress are materially interfered with. But to add to their misfortunes, the British Government has pronounced against them, and intends to take active measures to pre vent an y i no r e of their pranks in Ireland. The association there, although extensive, is yet crude, and if its workings towards full development are closely watched by numerous übiquitous soldiery, they will be terribly clogged, if not compelled to totally cease. To-nicinT the - first step in the State cam paign. Will be taken through the great rati fication meeting at National Hall. It will be taken with vigor, . for (Kentucky ex cepted) from ever}' State in which an eke tion ham been held comes Cheering notes of UM II 4 II BER 16, 1865 k • I I ; I 11 • It 1 • victory—more cheering because even more complete thax. those gained in the great Presidential struggle. It is well to fight the campaign through with the Ante spirit, energy, and industry which characterized the last. Too much confidence is often dan gerous, especially against such active oppo nents as the Pennsylvania "Democracy." Iwroncsmumßoons.—Mr. Matthew Ryan, late of the Ist Massachusetts Cavalry, has been fur nished with a number of excellent military books by the Bureau of Employment of the United States Sanitary Commission. These books Mr. Ryan is now selling in this city, and we recommend him to the patronage of our loyal community. lie has been permanently disabled in the late war, and seeks a livelihood by the sale of books that must prove Yalna ble to every household. They, are entitled " Sketches of the War" and" Sketches in Prison Camps-." _ THE MOTHER OF A MURDERED SON AND THE Idetinima.--This incident is toldby the Wash ington correspondent of the Boston Journal: Yesterday, as Wirz was on his way from the court-room to the Old Capitol, a respectably dressed lady, between fifty and sixty years old, who bad been waiting for the opportunity, asked the guard if that was the Andersonville butcher'? On receiving an affirmative, she, in a frenzy of passion, endeavored to strike 1F irz with her umbrella, saying; "You wretch! you butcher! you murdered my son at Anderson.- vine el Failing to reach him, she seized a brick and implored the guard to let her get at him. She was with some difficulty restrained, and the iffisoner conveyed to his quarters. It seems that the old lady was an Ohio widow, who had come on here to ga the back pay Of her sons, all of whom have - belonged to the army. One was killed in battle, one murdered at Andersonville, lanother rendered hope lessly insane by his sufferings in the same slaughter-pen, and one only returned to his home at the close of the war. A Democratic Protest. Petroleum V. Nasby protests, as a consistent Democrat, against the nomination of soldiers by his - party, Ile writes : "I object to nominatin em for the follerin reasons: "1. Taint honist. In 1562 I called the so!. ers Link in pulps,' and the orfisers shoulder strapt hireline, , and -I meant it. They wuz agin a crooil and unholy war agin Dimocri sy, they Wll2 redoosin our mag,orities in the sutbren states at the rate uv sum hundreds Per day, and now to nominate em is a flop I'll never make. " Twon't pay. These fellers sold us out .when they took commishns, they sold Out the Ablighnists when they llOpt back to us e and what guaranty hey we that they wont sell us out the next turn of the wheel 1 lit we coos eit sum decent wuns, it mite do, but, good Lord! the soljer who wood do - this wood be lower down than we is, which wood bother a man. All the votes that eich men cood eon trole, we her DMus owned in fee simple. "3. - Taint justis 9. us originei: eopperheds. We endoored the heat and burden uv the day ; we resisted drafts, we dammed taxes, we wnz Fort Lafayeted and Fort Warined, teas us who died in our door-yards. Where WIIZ these or fisers then 1 All the damage they dun the government wuz in drawin pay and - mations. "4. The reconstructed dimeeriey uv the South wont like it, and to them, after all, we must look for success. "s. They acknowledged nigger equality by allowin imagers to fight with. em. "S. We hey gone too fur to try the solJer. dodge. We opposed the war, we opposed ther votin, we opposed the Ablishn in votin pay and supplies, we opposed Aid Society, and left at Sanitary Commishns, we opposed drafts at a time when:they needed help, and to g. , 0 , back on sieh a record is ruthtr renchin, and I won't do it. "7. Ef we undertake the soljer, we commit ourselves to payin his pepshuns, et scttry. "low would the suthern Dimocrisy like thatl " S. Ef we nominate men who served, we dig. gust the deserters =Menu es went, to Mina dy for the sake ov the cos.'? Nashby appends the following advice to his party "We have cappytleenoutT in the Nigger. Let us plant ourselves boldly on spoor ground. Let us Resolve that floc - Mien/icy waz rite in inaktn the Nigger our slave, the he made a mistake in plantin in his heeven bnanm a cronic desire to run away from his normal condishm Let us hang out our banner and in scribe on its foles, No marryin Niggers No payin a debt inkurd in a Nigger war P Protect us from Nigger equality and itch other precepts - es cum within range uv the -Dimehratie intellek, and go in and win. " May the Lord hasten the day. "PETROLEUM V. NASWr, " Lait Paster uv the Church uv the Noo Pensastrun." STATE ITEMS. The Tioga county Agitator says: Colonel W. W. H. Davis, the Copperhead candidate for Auditor General, was, during the war, and still is, the editor and proprietor of the Doylestown Deniecrat, one of the most poisonous Copper head sheets published in the State. While he was drawing $2,500 a year from the Government his paper was engaged in the work of denoun cing the war as cruel and unjust toward the South, Abraham Lincoln as a tyrant and usurper, and every effort of the Government to maintain its existence as an infraction of the Constitution and a blow to civil liberty. It 'was prominent, too, among the journals which sought to undermine the public credit, upon which national integrity depended. It scoffed at the currency, glorified the Chicago platform, which declared the war against trea son "a failure," and consequently pronounced the rebellion a success. Yet all this um. iS t its editor anu proprietor; wa....copting from the Government his sheet reviled, the pay of a colonel, and doing his utmost at the War Office to get a brigadiers:: commission: Dut in playing this double game Colonel Davis only exhibited the animus of his party during the nation's trial. We affirm from positive knowledge that the most shamelessly persistent °thee-Seekers who grovelled in Washington during Lincoln's term were Cop perheads and most bitter revilers of the Go vernment. Still, they did not disdain to ask and receive their bread from the "tyrant" who oceupledthe Executive chair. And Colo nel Davis Is neither better nor worse than'the balance of that faction which repays kindness with black ingratitude. The following are the Democratic nomina tions of Delaware county, as published in the Delaware county Republican of September 15th, 'Which, by-the-by, is one of the most °arc fully-conducted and most influential of our country papers : The Democrats of this county met yesterday, at the "Seven Stars," in Aston, and nominated the following ticket: Assem bly, Dr. C. G. M. Griffith, surgeon United States service; Treasurer, J. Hamilton Fields; Pro thonotary; Captain Washington James, 97th Regiment P. V. ;Register and Recorder, Wil liam IL Beatty, 124th Regiment P. V. ; Com missioner, Stephen D. Bunter; Director of Poor John Eves ; uditor, Thomas W. Wood wad; Coroner, James W. G. Weaver, 97th Re giment P. There is growing, in Mount Joy township, Laileester county, an apple tree, which is quite a curiosity in its way. In the fork of the tree, a limb grows out a length of twenty-two inches, when it again enters the main limb, making a solid arch; and on the same pre mises there is a, tree of "iron wood," which produces the same singular feature, with the exception that, in this instance. the project ing limb grows clear through the trunk, pro jecting on the other side about five feet. Both of these trees arc Considered curiosities, and attract considerable attention. —The Harrisburg Tc/egrcKpb, says: "low that the people of all the States are interested in the removal of the remains of Union sol diers who perished and arc buried in the South, tolocalities in the North, the authori ties of Pennsylvania are giving the subject due attention. No effort will be spared by Colonel Gregg, chief of transportation and telegraph ing, to facilitate these removals. By address ing that Officer at this city, persons desfring information on the subject will be promptly answered." The Mercer county Union Convention has nominated the following ticket: Assembly, Josiah 3.l6Pherrin and Jame* A. Leech (sub ject to the decision of the conferees); District Attorney,.T. B. Robinson; County Treasurer, John J. Grace; County Commissioner, R. W. Smith; County Surveyor, IL Gould; County Auditor, Joseph Cleary; Poor Director, 3. K. Roberts. The Union men of Erie county met in con vention on Monday, and placed in nomination the following ticket: Assembly, 0. S. Wood ward, Colonel D. R. McCreary,; County COM mis loner, D. N. 111. Child 5 Auditor, 0. P. For guson ; Surveyor, G. W. Sherwin ; Director of Poor, A. Thompson; Trustees of Erie Acade my, J. B. Cochrane, J. IL Prcssly, G. W. Starr Trustees of Waterford Academy, 5, C. Stan ford, L. McKay. -The Democratic ticket in Carbon county is as follows : For Assembly (to represent the counties of Monroe and Carbon), Allen Craig; District Attorney, Wesley. B. Leonard; Trea surer, P. Sharkey; Commissioner, George Smith; Auditor, Elisha Backer Coroner, J. B. Longshore County Surveyor, R. T. Hoffercl. The First National Bank of Huntingdon was struck by lightning last Tuesday. It found its way into an upper story, where a girlwas standing, stunned her, burnt the lower .end of the curtain, passed into a lower room, burnt a hole in the carpet, entered the dining room below and tore off the plastering and shot out of the open door, and has not been heard of since. A notorious outlaw named John Gore, who has been a terror to the good people of Johns town for several years, shot, and it is believed mortally wounded, a police officer named Ed ward Homes, while in the discharge Of his duty, on the Setii A correspondent of the Cleveland Leader from Oil City tells a story of a discovery of gold there. The first discoverer was told he was mistaken, but areturned Californian found more of it, and it is declared by Pittsburg as sayers pure gold. The Democratic conferees of Washington, Fayette and Greene counties met on Saturday last, and nominated Hon. Samuel A. Gilmore as their candidate for President Judge of that judicial district. The hardware trade of the oil region is as suming splendid proportions. The sales for August in Titusville alone exceed $75,000. The Democracy of Dauphin county On Tuesday nominated Dr. Lewis Heck for As , senibly. Sooner than vote for such a man we would give our right arm to the surgeon. An ALUM Wiar—A discovery has been made iliklontgomery, Alabama. The Ledger of the MI say!: We visited the alum well in the rear of Mr. Englebard vs tin-shop, and found the, water as plentiful asever,andasstrongl3r impregnated, with alum. The use, of this water has proved beneficial in cases of chronic diarrlana and other diseases. Mr. Englehardt, too, with his usual liberality, we believe, charges nothing for the water. " Come ye to the Waters, otithout money and without price." Public Amusements. AOLDIENT of Music.—This evening the Typo graphical Dramatic Association give a grand performance at the Academy, for the benefit of the Fair for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Home. The aBSOCiation on this occasion will be as sisted, as we have before announced, by the Philadelphia Sfengerbund, who have volun teered to sing the prize song, which, at the recent National Sfengerfest, in New York city, earried off the banner, to the great chagrin of the societies of the " Metropolis" and other cities. The Germania Orchestra will also be on band, and perform a number of their choicest airs. The programme for the even ing Will Consist of J. Sheridan Knowles' beau tiful play of "The -Wife: a Tale of Mantua." To be followed by the "Prize Song," by the Philadelphia Srengerbund. To conclude with a laughable burlesque, by a member of the T. D. A., on the Peak Family of Bell Ringers . and Carter ZOUII.Ve Troupe, introducing the bells, female brass band, zouave drill, and, in lieu of Proteus, a magnificent tableau, entitled "America and her Defenders." We wish the Typographical Dramatic Association all sue• cess, and trust that they will be enabled to return a good round sum to the committee of the fair. CHESTNUT-STREET TusAmmt.—This afternoon Mr. W. 11. Gardner, the gentlemanly and obli ging agent of this theatre, takes a benefit. It is not often that Mr. Gardner appears before the public as a beneficiary, and he should, therefore, on this occasion, be honored with a crowded house, as he doubtless will. The drama of " The Drunkard" will be performed. It has been cast to the full extent of the com pany, and will, without doubt, be placed upon the stage in the usual fine style of the Chest nut. Every lady and child visiting the theatre this afternoon will be presented with a " mag nificent illuminated emblematic programme." In the evening Miss Helen Western again ap pears in" The French Spy . ;" the evening's per formanee concluding with the sparkling West ern specialty of "A Devilish Good Jolce," with Miss Western in six different characters: ARCH-STREET THEATRE —Mrs. John Drew makes her last appearance this evening. " - Rosedale" will be performed. Monday, Mr, Edwin Adams, in the " Serf." WALNUT-STREET THEATRE.—Mrs. D. P. Bow ers appears this evening in her great charac ter of Bianca, in Dinner's fine tragedy of " n ate, or the Italian Wife's Aevenge.” The drama of " The Cricket on the Hearth' , closes the performance. Miss Effie Germon appears as Dot, and Barton 11111 as Caleb Phentmer. NEW ANERICAN THEATRE.—MiSS Kate Fisher appears this afternoon and evening, with her horse, Wonder, in the drama of a iliftzeppa)! If we are to judge from the success of Miss Fisher last week, her engagement here has been a remunerative one, both to herself and the management. • • Mn. Ann Mae. WArxixs.—YheSe two inge nious performers, with the assistance of Miss Carlotta Shaw give at the Assembly Band ings an agreeable vaudeville entertainment, that is a novel and ingenious contrast to the often heavy theatrleals. Mr. and Mrs. Wat kins are not a bit overstated in the advertise ments, and they therefore deserve the reputa tion of giving the full worth of the prices. A matinee will be given this afternoon. Blinn Tom,—At Coneert Hall the perforni ftnees still continue to be of the most humor ous and gratifying nature. Blind Tom's intro duction of himself to the audience, and his spontaneous and ingenious self-applause, are as unique as his musical performances are marvellous. Simultaneously lie plays "Yan kee Doodle , ' with his right hand, ",pixie” with his left, and sings " Tramp,tramp,tramp, the Boys are Marching!" His operatic selec tions, his Thalberg variations, and his inter pretations of familiar - fireside melodies, are all given with equal power and felicity. When. once the public understands that the enter tainment given by Blind Tom is refined, ex quisite, and artistic, scarcely a seat in Con cert Hall will be left unoccupied during the season. COlNClDENCES.—Superstitious people are as sociating the extreme heat of this month with the CuribUEl,doeurnent which appeared in the prominent English journals, prophesying the end of the world in 1878. The manner of end ing was by the precipitation of the earth into the sun. The unusual heat is ascribed to our unusual proximity and rapid approach still nearer to that luminary. REMOVAL Or JAY COOKE AND Hi S RANKING. rmusa.—Jay Cooke Sc, Co., during the necessary alterationS in the elllargenient of their old quarters, have removed their office for the sale of Government loans to the commodious rooms No. 305 Chestnut street, nest door to the Bank - of North America. CITY ITEMS. THE "FLORENCE" SEWING MACHINE, from its universally acknowledged superiority over all others in use, has become a popular household necessity. No home cantle complete without it. It performs all that any other sewing machine in the world does, and more, and performs it better. It is easily learned, and so simple in mechanism thftt a child can under etw.nd llama use it eorreetly. Every " Florence!' we may unao state, 13 Werratteea to give satisfaction, or the money will be re. funded to the purchaser. WHEELER. & WILSON'S SHAVING id.A.OBINEI3. The highest compliment that emdd be paid tO the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Diachines,is the fact that over 200,000 of them have been - sold, of which 7,000 have been sold in this city alone. Their reputation is world-wide, and every fa mily not yet supplied with one of these instru ments should go to 704 Chestnut street, and order one at once. GENTLEMSN'S FURNISHING Goona.—Mr.George Grant, 6/0 Chestnut street, has a handsome as sortment of novelties in Shirting Prints, beau tiful Spring Cravats, Summer Under-elOthing, and, goods especially adapted for travelling. His celebrated "Prize Medal" Shirt, invented by Mr. John F. Taggart, is unequalled by any other in the world. Tnn BEST FITTING SHIRT OF TRN AGis «The improved Pattern Shirt,” made by John C. Arrison, at the old stand, 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 Furnishing goods cannot be surpassed. Prices moderate. DELICIOUS CoxpecTiorm.—The pleasures of home may be greatly enhanced by a supply of fine, fresh, healthful confections, such as can always be had, in best style, at Messrs. E. G. Whitman & No. 818 Chestnut street,-next door to Adams & Co.'s Express. They runtish these delicious edibles in qualities expressly adapted for the hot weather, put up in neat boxes, for home consumption, or to carry any distance without injury. HOT-ROUSE GRAPES, CHOICE FRUITS, CONPEC. %lons., ft.—The most tempting stock in this city, at A. L, VanSant% Ninth and Chestnut. Roasted Almonds, Chocolates, and a hundred Other delicious things, adapted for the season, can now be bad at his counters. Aztroiro the instrumentalities which are giv ing an Impulse to music, and greatly assisting its progress in this country, are the now in struments called Cabinet Organs, manufac tured by Mason & Hamlin, Boston. They are an improved form of the melodeon or harmo nium, greatly surpassing these instruments in all respects, and have acquired a wide reputa tion in the space of a few years. These Cabi net Organs are destined to find a place in al_ most every Sunday.school room, small church, and halge.TOOM in the country, and in every private house where music is loved. Mason 4 Hamlin are the only makers, as they are the fortunate possessors of patents upon import ant devices, and in their construction. AN INVISIBLE fiflVCrtitielnent, more COnvine ing than printed words, is now recordUM/ling Phalon , s "Night Blooming Cerens ,3 in a thou sand fashionable homes in the city of New York. That advertisement is simply the Streani of delightful fragrance poured from every flits!on of this delightful extract. Sold everywhere. FIRST-CLASS MULES.—Our readers, purlieu. larly parties interested in the possession Of maul animals, will hear in mind that the Government sale of Idules is continued during the present month, (Wednesdays and Satur days,) at the City Mazer and TattersalPs, by it. B. Champion, auctioneer, under orders from Assistant Quartermaster Albert S. Ash mein!. THE TIMES Ant: IMPROVING, and the land in Somerset might to improve too, if our farmers 'will send their orders for the fertilizers of the Agricultural Chemical Co.—Somerseg (ard.) Herald. Ofllce, 41214 Arab. street. A CLEAR CoMrt.E3LioN AND A HEALTHY SKIN Can never be obtained while the pores of the skin are obstructed, or the blood is in an im pure condition. Dr. Jayne's Alterative will, however, restore the purity of the skin, and will thoroughly cleanse the blood ; it will also remove the obstinate state of the pores, and free the prespiration from all impurities and gross particles. A trial will establish its efts. easy. Prepared only at No. 242 Chestnut Street. sels.2t • THE LATEST AND GREATEST Discovery in. Dental Hygenie, is Sozodont. It has super seded all the ordinary dentifrices, and, for this reason—that While it Contains no solvent principle injurious to the enamel of the teeth, it obliterates tartar and every other dental concretion, prevents canker of the gums, re moves blemishes, both from the molars and incisors, and leaves the 'breath pure and sweet. sel2-tuths3t MCCLAIN'S NIGILT-BLOOMING CERELTS, Sold at 50 cents per bottle. McClain's Night-Blooming Corm's, Sold At 75 cents per bottle. MeClain's Night. Blooming Cercus, Sold at $1 per bottle, according to size. Other choice Toilet Extracts prepared at No. 8.34 North Sixth street, above" Vine secs-4t To HOLDERS OF OLD Eivr,-Twutrrius.—We would'call the attention of holders of the above bonds to the wide dißrence in price now existing; between them and the new issue, which bear the additional advaniage of two and-a-half years longer time to run. Wo are prepared to make the exchange of the new bonds for old at current market rates. Deaxeca Co., seurt 34 South Third street. CRIOKRRING GRAND PIANOS.-6,11. the great Musical artists use only the " Chickering Grands." The largest collection ever exhibited here, 9t4 Chestnut street - ae942t* WM. U. DUTTON. TEE Dana Bcrarrrass.—There is no business or branch of trade in which skill, knowledge, and enterprise are more essential, than in the drug business ; nor is there any branch of human industry in.which more charlatanism and ins posture prevail. It is, therefore, to the inte rest of the public carefully to discriminate between the true and the false druggist. This can easily be done by a simple, practical ap plication of that rule, which is as true in mat ters of business as of morals, "by their fruits (or results) you shall know them." Judged by this rule, Helmbold is a true Druggist, and those well•known medicines known as " Helm bold's Preparations," are legitimate remedies. These latter have been before the public for many years, and have been almost universally successful; the Extract of Buchu especially, has secured the public confidence. For its ap propriate diseases it is without a rival. The certificates to its usefulness embrace many thousands of names; but the fact that, after the trial of so many years, Relmbold's Prepa rations are in as great a demand as ever, or even greater, is the best possible proof of their legitimate merit. The Principal Depot for their sale, is at llelmbold% New Store, next to the Metropoli. tan Hotel. . ARRIVALS AT THE HOTELS. The Con John Lathrop, Boston A Mitchell, Jr., Scotland N 11 Jennings & 10; Bait Mrs E N Jas E Blauk, Washington E Fawcett C Vir Perris bleat Thos R Scott,N Y G A liardortr E Burgy W Nagel 851 a, LewisbUrg J Moorbeao. N 9 13 McElroy, Pittsburg D K Kearney, Pa C 0 Ma rstou, Mass IS Saville, Mass tinental. !Louis Dolune, Baltimore ].outs Gieske, Baltimore Mrs Marshall Brown J Robb & .Miss Robb, Nashville Miss Cago, Nashville JP Ringgold & svf, Balt 0 B Baker, Cincinnati S G Coolidge. Boston J D Perkins & wr,Boston J H R Hubbell & Ca, N Y H Gilbert, Roston A A Sumner, N Y E P Hackett, Canton,Pa 0 S Hackett, Canton, Pa Geo A Kanfftnan & la.lnd Miss A R Kauffman, Pa Samuel Wright, N Miss richer. A C Sterritt & wf A Dessar ' Indianapolis Lewis Dcssar, Indiana W Ii Dempsey & wf Heath, .New York C McDowell, Baltimore C B Lefford, Illinois W Moore. New Jersey T Webb & r, Boston Mrs Pklnxi.dg &011,BOStnn Mrs I' C Richards, Mass Neinlonch, New York. H C Peek. New. Haven Mrs S W Holmes, Boston N It S Rowe, Boston T B _Bryson, Penna W H Bumsted, Jer City R C Washburn; der City J Newall & son; London J Adams, Lebanon, 0 Miss Yandevierv, L Soorev, New Jersey C S Coake & In, N Jersey. II A Bills, New York J 11 Lintz, Indianapolis H S Goodwin, Harrisburg H B Hewett, New York Mrs , Forquer, New York SW Do odwin Indiana Chas E N York Henry Lloyd & wL Pa W C Mitchell & wf,N M , John P Flournry, N ]llex. 'D L Rose, California JA H Crawford, N York T R Fuller ' Boston E Stone, Wash, ly C John Hughes, New York Mrs Hughes ell, NY: Mrs C A. Herkseher, N Y C A Herkscher, Jr, E T H Adams, IV Vit . , A Grac:f t .New Yorki J 0 Robinson & N H Dulnield, :New Fork S N Prather & wf. Va Geo Olney, New York Chas Arbuckle, Pittsburg D Beardsley & A r a S II Mal, Pittsburg Wni nom New York Yasser, California Miss Vasser, California J Newlin, New York J D & son, Md Mrs Embalm, Maryland Miss Roma in, Maryland John Pierson, .N J Jos E Spear, Charleston Thos Graham. Md. E St Louis it wd. W C Lewis, Richmond J B Foster, Columbus, 0 W L Basin, Baltimore H Edson ' Ohio IJ H B Wai ye r, Oker,Oh ioho ,T Claypoole. Philada D B Janney, Phil:Ma D A McDermott, Waslen Jas Tindall & sn. Balt Chas 'Weber S.: wr,N York K Arnold & wf, na M E Kull, Petersburg W L Wallace & la, Balt R Corwin, Baltimore J 11 Boffin, Bellefonte C Valentine. Bellefonte Wm Norris, Williamsport Win Mt:Dwain & w Pa I) Galbraith & wf, Penna i Frank Thompson, Pi ttslig W Sprague, Pittsburg W. M Morrison & son.NY WHBaxter&M,lTarrisbg Mrs S Sloop,Harrisbn re , H. Keating, Liverpool John W gig lat, rtlPlaa IJohn D Rowland, Ala ;Miss AL Polk, Delaware IRobt Polk, Delaware ;J P Lindsay & la, Kg T Worth, Lebanon 'Darid Mumma, Marrisbg D A Ball, Harrisburg Jacob House r.llarriSlig J H Cooper, Petersburg T B Hammond, Vi rginia J A Rodgers. Georgia .J Multord & wife, N J N S&etson, Oramm, N ,T ;1-I II Long & wf ilarrisbg '0 II Mann.Jr,,bdurrisbarg T 8 Burden. Charleston Dr J Lloyd Martin, Balt It Givin, Penni) :0 Ii Mullen, Penna C Mansfield, Georgia B Caswell & la, IC York IC Mosher,Jr,New York •Lt G S Carpenter, 1.1 S A A H earner, Washington T H McCracken, Penna W Stuckert, Penna. 11 Whits, Summit Hill M Jones, Penns, The G Lends earl, York, Pa S H Anderson, Chicago G Coburn. Harrisburg J It Eby,Harristnirg CM. J AM.ling, Wash - Ili Dr JsThoms,Alaiguint A G Draper. Georgia S McCormick H Tanner. Nashville Dr DM Dranprey, Conn T O'Brien, Alex, Va %co Slarldou, N Jersey S J Meader. Boston Dr Ir - NY Shaeley,.Carlisle 0 E Maltby, Bait more Jas Young St sn, Penns W M RunUel, Reading Tos R Patton John Tobin J Thompson, Fort,MMlllt. Dr W J W Pennell, Del ATJohnston,Mnford,Dl A /3 Watson. Milford. Del C W Allen, Milford, Del II M Alien, Milfor