C.iiittAtito .. Gaititt CHAPEROAS. CFrom the Saturday Bellew.] With the close of the season end the sufferings of, some of the hardest,- worked of Her Majesty's subjects within the four seas—workers, too, whose labor is less profit than vexation,ler, like the fisher' men of old, they are of those who toil all night and too often take nothing. Pei baps no one is to be pitied more than those/wretched slaves ' called chaperons; and certainly no slavery is more impera tive or less personally productive than theirs. The park in the morning; pa, visits, at home in the afternoon; dinners in the evening—not that they-usually ob ject to dinners, these being indeed the entertainments of their own order, and especially adapted to their condition; balls at night, after the opera may be, and may be two of a night—verily the life of a chaperon is one of unmitigated severity, and calls for the deepest commiseration from those . -who have hearts wherewith to feel the sorrows of their fellow•crea tures. Lately, a rumor has bten going about the. London drawing-rcoms that next season is to see the institution of chaperons done away - with altogether, and society at the West end so far Amer icanised that our young ladies are to go to balls and parties by themselves, with no other care-taker than a brother, perhaps, or a delightral male cousin convenient to the occasion. Doubtless such an arrange ment would simplify . matters greatly; it would'certainly alleviate the sufferings of the chaperons, while the young ladies and their partners would find nothing left to desire. Whether it would work well in the eyes Hof those who hold the doctrine of the giddiness of 3 outb, and who, therefore, think the guardianship of the young one of the primary duties of ma turity, is another matter; but if we come to liking—polling of the young ladies and their male cousins only—we should sure ly pole a laige majority in favor of the abolition of a class which frets more than it preserves, and which has come to be too much of a symbol only, though retaining all the pains and penalties of a vital re ality. The duties of a chaperon are manifold, and, on the surface of things, contradic tory to a bewildering extent. She has to attract and to guard, to allure and to re strain, to throw the line dexterously and with intent, but to prevent too much inde pendent flattering on the part of the bait, and too much nibbling on the part of the fish angled for; and yet without fluttering and without nibbling how can she get a - valid bite ? She has to take her wares to market, but she has to surround them • with artful contrivances of defense work, while setting them as attractively as may be; she has to work Lard to destroy the health, purity, and freshness on which she bases her best hopes; and she has to toil for her - own undoing and to labor for no reward. This is , the ethical view of a chaperon's lite, The practical or real condition is even harder to understand; and how the institution ever grew into - what it has now become, and'on what prin ciple it is founded, are mysteries scarcely to be explained. In France achaperon is an absolute power with .strictly defined _ duties and sharply masked responsibili ties. She holds her charge as a very frail vessel indeed, whom she has not only to keep from evil influences from the out side, but whose inherent weakness and propensity to fall into mischief volunta rily and on her own account, have to be perpetually guarded against; the central point of all French morale being the in nate depravity of human nature, and more -especially the innate depravity of the young. Consequently men know what they-Aim to expect when they encounter an ingenue taken abroad into the world ander the eyes of her chaperon or her mother. They know that when they lead her out to dance they must keep within ear-shot of her chaperon, and be careful not to - speak to her at all when the exigencies of the figure have removed them from hearing distance. They know that they, must bring her back to maman the instant the dance is ended, ant' de posit her with a formal bow, safe under the protecting shadow waiting to en velope her., They know that they would be held to have acted in a manner both malhon*tte and rep rehensible if. they said, or did any thing whatsoever that might tench her feelings or arouse her intelligence. And knowing all this, they treat their pretty ingenue with the same kind of care with which they would nandle a fragile wax doll ; and judge of her real nature, if they judge of her Mall, as they beat can by, the mere sketch afforded - them by her face and bearing, and the timid tones of ,her voice, when tht y hear them, which is not always. Stupid as all this is, both for the ingenue and her partner, it is thorough; and we accept it as the logical conclusion of certain -foregone premises. Given a frail youth, much inclinedto naughtiness, and having to be kept straight by the force of outside circumstances, by the care and restriction and unceasing vigilance of the mature whom experience has made wise, not to say suipicions and distrustful, and we can understand the French system, though we may not agree with it. Given, on „the other band, the Amer ican idea that the earth and all the ful ness thereof is made for the young only, and that the first duty of boys and girls, as soon as they leave the school-room Is to shelve the old folks and go shead with out delay—given the national belief in the power of ail young people to guide themselves aright quite as well aLd a great deal better than their- elders can guide them—and we can understand why chaperone are discarded over the water; and why the theory of their necessity is scouted as an insult to the free and en lightened juveniles who maintain that no dangers exist among themselves as an un checked body, far which advice is needed or guardianship required. So it, may be Heaven forbid ' that we should judge; and, Miracles being hot impossible. Transat lantic nature may be different from European humanity, and the ,fire of youth may -(who knows?) be able to burn clear without smoke or flare in the home '-of the setting sun. Never less it does seem to us somewhat :strange to hear of splendid balls where crowds of smartly dressed, and quite re spectable young women have not .the ghost of a chaperon among them, of sleighing parties in the brisk winter moonlight; with never a wary father nor cautious mother to guard the lambs from the wolves; of torchlight skating on the crowded "rinks," with no prudent guard ian to steady the tottering steps of Inez , perierice, and provide against the dangers of a fall on such Slippery gruund. To a French mother, t 6 wheim even our much freedom More restricted seems a danger ous tempting of Providence, such ways and manners are of course anathema maranatha, and not to be accepted as pos sible with innocency; and -many are the equivocal positions in which a free-spoken and free-acting American girl places herself, and much and grave the misunderstandings to which she subjects herself,- all in the naivest manner poesible, when first she enters French soc'ety, and - learns to her astonish ment-that young girls are supposed to be given over hopelessly into the power of the Evil One unless they have a chape ron always at their elbow to pluck them back by main force. But to us also this is an amount of liberty by no means desira ble; and more than one Belgravian moth er has heard with dismay whispers of the coming revolt, when our English young ladies intend to adopt the American flag, - be their own generals and lieutenants, and cashier all their chaperons as so many worn out dummies of no use whatever. Now it seems to us that this is a revolt quite without cause. Heaven knoWa that it is not much that chaperons do nowa days to restrain the independent action of the young, or to interfere with their lib.' erty. Very few place any limits to the amount ofpleasure indulged during the season, and quite as much flirting as is good for the soul of man or woman is al lowed to go on under the eyes of the most watchful. Certainly chaperons, as an in stitution, still exist and flourish largely; but it would be difficult to discover their exact uses, if we except the uses of va cariousness and responsibility. If girls were wise they would know that no free dom is so great as that which is got by the shifting of responsibility. So long as they have a chaperon on whom t 3 lay the burden of their follies, they may be im prudent as they like; but once left to themselvts, they enter into the difficulties of responstoility; and if they have more freedom than' even now, they have also to bear more blame for mistakes. As things are, their chaperons bear the brunt for them; and if they are faster than they ought to be, people condemn mamma for allowing them to "go on -so," more than they blame the girls for using their over plus of liberty. They will find this out to their cost, if they translate the whispered threat into an acted reality. To be sure, such radical changes take time to complete themselves, and though year by year has seen the gradual ex tinction of the chaperon moral vitality, and season alter season has made her functions more and more mythic, while appearances are held as essential as ever, still it will be long yet before English so ciety will consent to be headed by young unmarried girls--before the grace and good inherent in at least the idea of a goutterrwate is disregarded, and our maidens are lett to go right and left at their own sweet wills, without a chaperon to countenance them, or a care-taker to I restrain. It may all come in time, and I probably will, accordink to the way things are going; but not just yet, we would hope. But the person to be most pitied in all this is the chaperon herself, for whom it would be a relief unspeakable if some good working substitute could be devised, some quite satisfactory machinery, which would release her from her weary office while performing her duties. What a life hers is ! Half dead with sleep and fatigue, lll I 'Nl' : I MADE TO ORDER. Also, Wholesale Agents for the Ceiebrated "NORWICH MOLDED" Linen- Collars and Cniis, SABLIOGA, NEWPORT, ' NIAGARA, 4t Marsuracturers' Prices. PUTNAM & ADAMS, 72- Fifth Avenue, OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. 6-TLUST SEWING. MAOH/NES. UNRIVALLED TII WIIEELER it WILSON, Sewing ll Machines. LEM ILL COMPETITORS. Tte distinctive feature of the WHEELER & WILSON MACHINE is the use of a ROTAIIT HOOK - to carry the loop of the upper thread around the spool containing the under, making the lock-stitch alike on both sides of the fabric. thereby doing away completely with the vibra tory motion of a shuttle, the tension upon the under thread, and all devices for taking up slack thread; these are necessary on all two-thread Mschlnes. The public have indorsed ibis prin.. ciple by purchasing over 380,000 of ourlda chines—moie than 100,00 In excess of those of any:Other manufacture: It - has tom :been so. kncilledged by far the most simple Look-stitch Machine in existence; having one-third lose ma chinery than . any Other two thread Sewing Ma chine. (From the London Times.) "The WHEELER /I WILSON SEWING MA• CHINE, which hi the ONE BERT CALCULA . TED YOU HOUSEHOLD WORK, uses no shut tle, and makes the LOCK•STITCH alike on both sides piths goods. "Some of the Sewing' Machines are very ex travagint in the use of thread; one of the most noted of those making the double •lcop chain• Bitch, using six yards of thread to one of sew ing. This Is a serious matter, looked upon Dr a manufacturer's point of view, where the great aim is to economise the materlal." Be it ordained and enacted by the Select and Common Councils of the city of Allegheny. and It is hereby ordained and enacted by authority of the Came,That one half the fine authorized to be coll.ote by the 11oc of Assembly or May let, sbOL'relatinit to the weighing of cattle, hogs, &e.. Shall be paid by the city lathe person making the information against any part? fund guilt. before toe Mayor or other proper ofill,u.r of violating said Act of Assembly. • - exc. a. That so much of any nrdinsame as may conflict with or be supplied by the foregolpg, be and the same is hereby repealed. . Ordainea and enacted Into a law, this the ..12th day of August, A. .1). 1809. • _ . JAMES McBRIEE, Pies Went of the Select Conked. ATTEST: J. it. OXLEY, . Clerk of Select Council. ALien ED SLACK. 'President of flommon Council. Attest. ROBERT OILWORTIL; • RECO .Clerk of Common Council. . than a year in line sewing. I A N ORDINANCE Mae. ANNIE WARNER. 4.. a. • Th ds of Testimonials 'Could be given from all parts of the world. were it necessary to. the reputation of this well-known Family Sowing Machine. I beg to state that I have used my Wheeler 1 Wilson Sewing Machine, In family sewing, fbur teen years, without even the moss trifling repairs; and it Is in so good oomdition that I would not exchange it for your latest number (now up wards of 300,000). 'One needle served me more NEw Toss. Mrs. 3faxley has had her Wheeler .t Wilson. Sewing Machine In almost deny use for over eleven years without any repairs. the has done, with her own hands, during that period, the larger portion of the sewing for a family of eleven children on the machine, and part of the Wine fur fifteen or twenty farm servants. She would not now change her Wheeler £ Wilson for any other she has ever seen. K. 3IAXLZY. BILINDON.• / S. Capt. J. YOUNG, Jn., of Robinson township, Allegheny county, says: We' lave used the Wheeler & Wilson :Sewing litichlne in our tamtly two years. Dty daughter received bit two les sons, and is able to accomplish every variety of sewing without any difficulty whatever. We had need the "Howe" and "Grover & Baker," and after a fair trial of these three leading machines, we can most confidently assert that no machine ao simple or so well adapted for I :dies , and family use, as the "Wheeler & Wilson." My wife has used her Wheeler & Wilson Ma chine ten years without repairs and has used only one needle for the last three years. • CHARLEtI J. GRAY. 1 4 i. Y. Ten years ago I purchased a Wheeler Se Wil son Bewins, Biachine, and have had It in constant use in my family since. We used it during the war to make clothing for oar volunteers In the service, and for the hospitals, .and ti.ta work was very heavy, being coarse woolen Ind cotton fabrics. It to still in good working order, noth ing...having been broken but 3 few needles. You are welcome to use my nine in your recommeri datlone. MRS. HUG El IeIcULILLUCH, GREY NUNNERY, 31f)NTIITAL. We, the undersigned, Sisters' of Charity, cer tify with pleasurithat, alters trial of ten years, we have lotted Wheeler ,Sc Wll:on's Sewing Ma chines superior in every respect to all others need in our establishment. Their mechanism Is strong and perlect, and with little care never get out of order• SISTER COHLTER, SISTER BAYEUX, General Hospital. In order to facilitate the sale of, and place a Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine within the reach of every one, we propose to lease them on the following terms: We will furnish one of our celebrated bowleg Machines to any one deposit ing With us fifteen dollars as secarity /or its safe keeping, and paying us tindoll:wiper month for the.use of the same. When the monthly pay. ments and deposit amount to a sum equal to the h Pees of the Machine, we will give &receipt full for the Machine. ny one dtsirous to avail themselves of our Offer, can be accommodated by making applies :l°P, to one Of our traveling , sgies tri e b. . dr by ad. dressing ns, or by calling it our ELEGANT SALESROOMS WOOD STREET. lITTSBIMGII;PS WM. SUMNER it CO. Mill 8 HE COMMON BEIIII9E. WINE AND CIDER MILL, Ilannfactured hy she land tOhlo) Machine . Company, Is the Most s tort ttleal Cider MITI In the worla. By one opera- Oen it grinds the apples, Dresses that as dry as chips between roder•- - -, while the elder passes di rect Into the barrel. They are run by hand or power, easily operated, durable and snnstanttal. Berta, Darobastng a Older Mill lead tbr en Ulna. trated Circular. . . !.. 1011611139 481U5E117441113. ME rigr'FIFTH &FUME HALL. 6. No. 65 Filth avenue, cinifoilte tiff Oper House, Pittsburgh, Pa., is the coolest. and moat desirable place Or resorte. Liquors mit: be bad at this place Pure and Uood Billiard Rooms are o the ground floor in the rear; ORDINANCES. RDJNANCE AN To Authorize the Grzirlinz of %villis • moreet.. from bell's Avenue to the old city Li,e. SECTION 1. Be it ordained and enacted by the Select and Common Council* of oh. Vitt* of Alle gheny, and it is hereby ordained and enacted by the authority of the same, That the Committee on ...creels be, and they are hereby authorized and directed to invite - and receive yropusals for the grading of Wills street, as aforesaid, and to contract therefor with the lowest and best bid: der or bidders. at their discretion. SaC. :4. That for the purpose of defraying the cost and expense of said isnprovenseots, there - be.. am. is belchv levied, a special tax. to be equally assessed noon the several lot. bounding and.. abutting., ,np-n the -said Willis street, respectively in proportion to the feet front In them respectively comprised; and boanding and abutting as aforesaid. liac. 3. That as soon as thitchst and expenses of said amitovemenis shall be fitly ascertained. It shall be the duty of the Street Commissioner to assess and apixirtion the same woo. gibe several lots bounding and abatttnr. upon. said Mats street respectively, according to the role above indicated. and thereupon proceed to make demand and collect the same, accorolug to the provisions of the Act of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Pennsyivatlia. Antilled -"An Act cleaning the manner of o:Mettler the exoessesMf evading Mid -paving of the streets; and alleys of the City of Altegb pay, at d for other purposes," passed the'thirtitit day y of *arch.. Sec. 4. That so much of any ordinance u MST. conflict with, or be staed by the foregoing. be and the same enacted: rrp,aled. Ordalhed and to a law this the 12th day of August, A. D. 1869: .JA2gB McBRIER. President of the Select Council. Attest: J: E. Oxt.rx,. Clerk of the &lett-Connell. • AidertED Common ACP,. President of the Common Connell, Attest: ROBZUT Clerk of Common Council AN ORDINANCE To Secure the Bettoi Enforcement of the Act of wseemblyltelating to the Weighing of Cattle, flogs, Sheep, Att. WHEREAS. There are gross violations oft - Act of Assembly the weighing bogs, sheep, &c.. committed regularly by deal In said stock, and the wry is thereby defraud of an amount of Its just revenues. equaling prob ably twenty (20) dollars per week; AFD WHEREAS, If any compensation were al lowed for giving Information of violations of said act. It Is probable that the same would be enforced: and tae city thereby secureu In Its rev enues; tnerefore To Authorise the Construction or te Mont Sewer on Spring Garden Ave. 111 Mer. Sac. L Be a ordained and enacted by the Select and Common Council* of the City of Allegheny, and it is hereby untamed and enacted by the as thority of the same. That the i ewer Commission be sue Lacy are hereby authorized and dirYcted to invite and receive proposals fur the construe- Don of a Sewer. !covert as follows viz: From the terminus of the present sewer to the old City Line, and to contract therefor with - the lowest and best bidder or bidders, at their dlacre Con. sac. A. That as coon as t ro coat and expenses of said Sewer shall' be 'fhly 'eacartained, the a mi shall be levied, assessed ' end'eollected as ovided for.~ be en act of Assembly of toe Com— monweal tit of Peausylvania. entitled "a supple ment to a supplement of the fourth section of ars act 'entitled an %et relating to 4 .lleglieny approves.hiarch %11, A. D. ibotc Sac. 3. That so much of may ordinance as may conflict with or oe supplied by the foregoing, be and the same is hereb) repealed. , Ordained and enacted into a laW this the 12th day of. August, A. D. 1813 a: JAMES ItfcBREER, Presidept,Faf Select Council. Attest : J. B. OXtsv, . • Clerk of Select Connell, • _ el.lltkir SLACK. President of Common Council Attest: Hong.= DitwOcT2," a a2l Clerk otCommon Council. , LEGAL. N THE COURT .OF COMMO PLEA.g. of Allegneny. county. vtitober Term. 1865. • ' (I,mnion wealth ex rel. ye. Andrew.Denniston. Commie-fon de Inebrietate Inqulrendo. July 31. 1469. Account of George Finley, Committee, 111.. d: S.me day peticloa of George Tinley. Commit tee, tiled, praying for leave to make priyam sales of certain lot. or pound &e..:' And nuw, to.wit, July 31, 1.869. Petlthan presented in open Curt, whereupon the Court. award • citation as prayed for, retutnahle to SATURDAY, the 21st day of _August. 1869, as. ito o'clock A. 31. ' BY 'THE COITRT. , (From the Record.l JACOB ht. WALTER, Proth notary. To Sndrew Denniston and 'Jane. Ms wife;, Lydia A. Finley. Jaurld. Berlin, Bemire C. Den t:linen. James A. Benoist. n, Blurry S. Weltzet. - udrew J. Denuiston, Samuel W.'..Lfenplatnn and Luther C. lieunliton: Ton are hereby nottfled to appear in Court on SAT•iIitDA Y. A 1141114 .411. 186 ti, at 10 o'clock A. N.. and show cause, if any you' have. why the 'prayer of the petitioner should not be granted.- - cull W-THELT IN THE MATTER OF THE App 1. rLicArioN of "The Hopewell Old Schoot Presbyterian Church. of *lndio , Township, Allegheny county, NAME for a Charter of Incorporation, al No. 6O Sep ember Tem, 1869. . • Notice is hereby given that the "HOPRWRLL OLD SCHOOL PREdBYTARIAN CHDRCH; of Findley Towr ship. Allegheny county. Pa.," have made application to tiie Court of COMM= Pleas for a ' - CH aRTER 07 INCORPORATION, And that the same will bt . jr,rsnted at the next nin term of Court, unless nine exit ieason should be shown to the contrary. au2 J. H. WALTRR. 'Prothonotary. TN THE COURT. OF. COMMON PLEAS, of . Allegheny County. No. 427 of oc,ntember Term. 1889. in the matter of the Incorporation of ”Tif.E' A. , TIBAhiB BUILD INC/ AND LOAN Ati•SOCIAT/ON ALIA SHENY CITY. P Notice la hereby given that on the 17th day of .1 MY:1869. apPllcatlon Itm made to 'saki Court to R rant a chafer of Ineorooratton to, male ABI/4I elation; and t at if no sulaclent reason be shown to the wetter.. the same wilt. be granted at the next term of sate Court. • • • D.•SV. & A. 8. BELL." irLY 19. 1589, Attorneys for Petitioners. • jrn:em2os • NOTlCEWhereas, letters of administration on the estate of prriut BotruatiN, ate of•Plemtnit 'Station, Allegheny County, deceased. have .been granteo to the sub ser,her. all eersons indebted to said estate are nem aced to make Immediate oarnea t, and those haetar elattas or dema .11.0eisaisist, the estate of tee sai,l deceden% arlil make -knowil the Mme, without de ay . • Id A DAL'ilit.BOtilsLlON,lAdministratrix., matte ,• f: ' Yletuing Staten. LETTERS .OF 'AD!IIIwi STRAP TiON on the' estate Of. JOHN GEORtilt BCH, detrain's, , having been thla daV ilvltt• - ed to the nu teralgeted, alipersons 'matelot them selves indebted to said estate are redsePted to tome forward Sinn Maks immediate payment. and all claims against the sante shonlotbe presented tome. duly authentieeted. P dANcTiCA GlNAWN.Admlnistratdx.. ifri:mdt Sw No. 148 Third Pt., Allegheny. MARSTIAWS' ' EiIrAinje • - AR .81IALL"S Exam WILL MHZ ILHADAOIIII. vjutgatALL"S ELIXIR WILL CURILDTSZEPSIA. MARSHALL'S ELIXIR ,WILL Cu= COSTITD. Pr i ce of Marshall's Elixir; $l.OO per bottle. DePok 13U1 Market.street. AL AI : ALL ac o Imogene, Proprietors. _ For sale, wholesale and retail. by GEO. A. BALLY. Pittsburgh. fe4:O9.2:TH • pIirENDEBSON,Lk BROTHERS, MI TA Ai ll aillictrots. Thlaleal triali El EMI ?i No. 558.