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Silk Velyets.

from the Philadelphia Ledger
A Voice from the States!!
JUDGE MAGRATH, Of the Ninth Ward, and Isaac Flag
ler 2ath strict, New York R. NJ Paynter Bristol, Pal
John Wyian 262 north 18th street, J. R. Myers Of the
Chinese Museum and thousands of Others certify that
AND WOOD NAPTHA is the best remedy for Coughs
Colds DC, they ever used Dr. Wilamss preparation
gaining rapidly In public favor and superseding all other
ediCines that are called Wild Cherry only name;
weknown fact that Dr. Williams's Basa Is the only
medicine where the wild cherry used More 10000
bottles have been sold within the last two Dr.
Williams's Northern Office, 148 north 9Th street.
For sale wholesale and retail at
Winners Stationery and Fancy Store,
nov Str 9th st. Louisiana avenue.
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MECHANICS BANK, GEORGETOWN.


rTNHIS Institution il open for General Banking
i Business. Office under the Union Hotel Bridge
and Washington streets Georgetown D. Co. where its notes
will be redeemed In specie.
+. W. CoNCH, Cashier.
GEORGETOWN, 10. O., Sept %, 1852, [sep 20
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nEsT QUALITY ETHEREAL and CAM
ID PHINE OILS, always on hand.
oct rs Corner of III and 18th streets.
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LINEN GOODS, &C.
VERY superior Irish linens
104 and l24 linen sheetng
pillowcase linen
Superior damask table linen
Brown do do
Superior damask tablecloth
Napkins
IIuckaback and damask towelling
Scotch and Russia diapers
Toilet and table covers
Linen floor cloth
Birds eye diapers
Medicated hucksback
Crash
Step linen, &c, &c.
just received by hEkBf MILLER.
L.
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Students and Apprentices, Look
THE FIRST NUMBER Is NOW READY.
FTNHE extensive and continued sale of MINIfIE'S ME-
i CHANICAL, DRAWlNG-B0oK, and the desire to
place the work in the hands Apprentices and others who
ment, have induced the publisher issue an edition in
monthly numbers at twenty cents per month, tbus
bringing 1t within the reach of all who desire to supply
themselves with
The best Work on Mechanical Drawing ever
PUBLISHED.
This edition OF Mnife's Mechanical Drawingbook 70,
SELF-INSTRUCfION, will be published in Twelve Mum
bers, at rs cents each payable on delivery.
Each number will contain from four to six Steel Plates
eight to sixteen pages reading matter whole
containing FItTY-SlX STEEL PLATES To which will he
added all
Essay on the Theory and Application Of Co'ors.
For sale by JAMES WINNER,
oct " 9th street. near Louisiana avenue.
CARPETING, oILCLOTHs, RUGS, &c.
- UPERIoR ingram and threeply carpeting
- Hemp do
Venetian do
Cotton do
Druggets, all widths
Floor and table oilcloths
Rugs, &c
Just received, and will be sold very cheap, at
sep 2l-tr VERIFY a MlBLER'S
LIVES OF WHATC0AT, McKEEDREE, AND
GEORGE.
sDRIEF authentic, and readable biographies of three
Id us good men as ever adorned the Church-men OF
mnrk-whose lives ought to be studied that the infection
high glorious deeds may be caught by young
people"-ZionS Herald.
For sale at GRAY & BALLANTYNE'S
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sTATHAM, sMITHsON a CO.,
Bankers and Exchange Dealers,
Penn. av., between Al and 9th SITS,
WASHINGTON CITY, D. G.

Ca Collections and remittances made by drafts the
principal cities and all business In the line Of Exchange
Dealers promptly attended TO- oct 13-aolms
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NOTICE.

NOTICE.
n L. ELDER, esq, is no longer engaged as my Agent
IL. Attor lsy the sale of any patent right or
est therein obtained by and in my Persons,
therefore, having any business in connection with said pat
ents will please call on the undersigned.
D. c. r. sALoMON.
GEORGETOWN, Sept Is, 1852 lsep 70
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IL has now been that the qua tity of food ar
riving at tids-wAter increased with wonderful ra-
pidity under the tariff Of lS42 and, further il has
been seen that the value per ton steadily
o that this increase Of value was due we propose
now to inquire. Mr.. Rantoul desired his hearers
TO believe that with British free trade exports in
creased and prices improved. while with the adop.
uon OF protection the foreign trade declined and
prices Tell OIL lfso-fexports II diminished in amount
while receipts from the West 80 largely increased
II must have been because domestic consumption 60
largely Increased. IT, however, il be shown that il
has been with the advance Of the country 10 wards
BIitsA Tree trade that exports have diminished and
prices have declined, and that il was under the
arh OF 1912 that the upward progress in the amount
oil exports and IN the prices Of the commodities er
ported took place. what shall we then saw of the
statement OF the honorable gentleman, when he as
sured ms hearers that there bad been a great rise
OF prices, Notwithstanding the "yast" increase in
the quantity exported
The following table exhibits the e1ports to foreign
countries oi food in the frat and last years of the
period hrst referred to in Mr.. Rantous spcech the
iormer being year in which protection was still
high, ana the latter being the last year Of the
strictly revenue tariff of ls4l .:
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DrennOn Springs. Henry County, Ky.
rTNHIS Institution offers those peculiar advan-
i tagcs that, with most thorough literary
course combines the essential parts Of the scien
tifc one of the U. 8. Military Academy, while it
promotes, by military exercise that health, physi-
cal development and consequent mental vigor
which the ordinary system of education tends
rather to destroy. Under its methodical dstribu-
ton of tme and the habits Of punctuality attained
by military discipline in situation remote from
the allurcments, the vices, and the dissipations
usually incident to college life, the student
complish more than ordinary results. 1t affords
superior opportunity for the study of MoDERs
LANGuA Es and the science and practice of En-
oINEERING It's Academic Staff consists of ten
experienced professors The cadets in attendance
from sixteen different States
The ANNUAL SESSION commences the second
Monday in September, and the SEMI-ANNUAL one
the first Monday in February, closing on the third
Thursday in June.
TEaMs: Tuition, boarding, rooms. furniture,
washing, fuel, lights, servants attendance field
music, Of arms, and surgeons fee, = l65 per
num- Modern Languages and Landscape Draw.
ing arc taught at an extra charge of $40 per
nun for each. Cadets received at any time
during the session, and charged proportionably
for the unexpired part.
For further information apply to ColonelB r.
Johnson, Superintendent, at Drennon Springs, or
A. o. Smith, Treasurer, Louisville, Kentucky.
Jan l4-tApl
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lslI-Q



We find here, under Briiish free trade, an in
crease ofquantiy, but II is In vain that we seek
increase Of price Beef and pork had almost quad
rupled IN quantity. and yet the value fell far short
OF having even doubled. Butter and cheese were
almost five times greater, and yet their value had
only trebled. Wheat had increased almost min =
tines, and its value but little more than .is times
Flour had increased IN quantity one-third aud iis
value bad remained nearly stationary. Corn had
isllen from eighty cents TO lees than sixty cents
and the general result appears 10 have been,
that while the quantity bad increased sepe,,iy-
fee per cent, the value bad increased only hi,fv
per cent
we beg our readers now TO remark the fact that
the receipts ofproduce the IL dson for both IsI
and 1872 were considerably Ices than they had
been In $50, and yet that small was the domes
TIC demand that the quantity that needed 20 find a
market in foreign countries almost fully equallcd
that receipt; the natural consequence Of which was
a great reduction Of prices, as has been shown
Al on' point The tartD Of lsi2 found he trods ~
Jood ,ctm me toyngn tcorid, and we have now to
see the effects OF largo harvess, such ne this coun
try had never before witnessed. From 1910 TO
1872 The receipts bad been only J92 600, go OOO
and 2g3,OOO tons. For the next four years they
were $4,000, $4,000. ii7 900. and rising finally to
o2S,OOO tons. How this enormous increase affected
prices will be seen by examination of the export
oi lsi5-6 which is here placed side by side with
that of lSfi-2.
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FRESH BEEF AND VEGETABLES FOR
THE NAVY.

NAVY AorST's OrFIcs, April u, 1882
SEALED PROPOSALS will be received at this
- Office until Tuesday. the eleventh day Of May
ls52, at noon, for the supply Of such Quantities Of
Fresh Beef and Vegetables may be required on
the Warrington station, during the fiscal year
commencing on the lat day Of July next, and end
ing on the Both June, 1858.
The Beet and Vegetables must be Of good quail
~, and the beet the market sords and each article
must be offered for by the pound.
Bond with approved security will be required in
one-hali the estimated amount Of the contract and
ten per centum in addition will be withheld from
the amount, Of each payment TO be made, as collat-
eral security for the due performance OF the con.
tract. which will account DC paid until il is
fully complied with.
Every offer made must be sccompa niod (as d.
rcctcd In the act Of Congress making appropris
ton Tor the naval service for 1851 approved 10th
August, lsi6) by a written guaranty, signed by
one or moro responsible persons, 10 tho effect that
he or they undertake that the bidder or bidders
will, IL his their bid be accepted, enter into an
obligation, within five days, with good and suffi.
cient suretics TO furnish the articles proposed
No proposal will be considered unless accoupa
MED by such guaranty.
J. II. LATHRoP, Navy Agent
Ap li-levfw
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Val. pr head of'42, 50 So yol nr bs,d o,,so a. :

Va. pr head of'42, $3.50. VAL Or head of,52 ss
The supply of food to the East is rapidly dimn
ishing, and yet the farmers of the West are every
where complaining of the low price of prain
Wheat has touched lower point in the Last ven
than Il has seen for many years, and vet we see
nut me quantity sent to market ia far less than il
wAs nve years since. One great reason for this
may be found in the fact that the pocv of tho Gov
erhment has deprived an important portion If the
people OF the power to earn wages, by aid of which
70 enable them to consume either food or clohinr
wn,le another large portion of the farmers old
customers has been driven part of the world in
whicn 'hey consume other prod uce than that WELD
ed oy the lands Of the Mississippi Valley Chill
gains the market that Illinois and Wisconsin lose,
as ID seen from the following paragraph:
"The commercial and fnancial affairs of Chill ore
az present IN very prosperous condition Herim-
ports ior the past twelve months exceeded thirteen
iohso OF collars, one and half millions OF which was
rom the United States Herszports, mailD
pou 'ohedt barley, beams, copper and silver ,cere
equal TO her imports . She ia ;ndeh,ed
mostly to California for this prosperous exhibit of
her resources, the gold discovery there having Tins
far resulted in more general and permanentS oood
10 her citizens than any other part of the world
not only by opening accessible market for her
surplus products, but enhancing their value an
The policy Of the last alton has pivep IN
Ch market Tor her. wheat and her flour the price
oil which has enormously increased, and the con-
is' that she imports largely, and pays for
what she imports II has gradua ily closed the orest
domestic market for the products Of the valley of
the Mississippi, and compelled it to depepd upon a
small and more distant one; the consequence of
which s that its po,oe furnish food to the barre,
ht1onAe 'iope, OVER rhich the future commerce of
H" country rs 10 pass. has diminished from wear TO
year, az the policy Of the nation has tended more
and more to separate the plough and the hammer
from the loom and the anvil; and bonds, bearing
interest," are everywhere being Issued for the differ
ence.
what has been the course of things in other ci-
ties than New York. for six years past. NAV be
seen by an examination of the following table,
Crops barrels Barrels Bushsls Bu.AsI. B,,sheI,
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- NN q WHITEHURST'S GALE
~ ! RY OF PREMIUM DA-
Cory3 NtsSI -1u CUERREOTYPES,over the
tS<EN-Es3{9SkzIh Store Of DUVALL & BRO,
between a and 9th streets

Pennsylvania avenue.
This establishment possesses many advantages
others in this city, being built expressly for
Daguerrean purposes. 1t contains one Of the finest
skyghts in this country, and best arranged; for
which reason artists prefer Daguerreotypes taken
at this establishment above all Others
There are now on exhibition some Of the largest
Daguerrcotypes in the world taken at this estab-
shment, with q large collection OF othere, free TO
the public at all hours of the day.
Awarded the fret medal at the late Fair OF the
Maryland Institute, and premium at the Great
Exhibition at Castle Garden, New York.
GaLeriss.-No. 347 Broadway, New York; No
205 Baltimore street, Baltimore; Pennsylvania
avenue, Washington, D. c.; II Main street, Rich
mond, Va; Lynchburg, Va; Norfolk, Va. and
Petersburg, Va.
J. II. WHITEHURST, Sole Proprietor.
Ian
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BROWNS HOTEL.
IT. u. n NJ. BROWN, ,PROPRrETOUs,
Pa. Avenue, between 9th and 18th hstreeG.
WAsHrSeToE, ID. G..
juno l3-tf
wILLARD's HOTEL.
Corner ofPenn. Avenue and I4tbstreet.
WAsHINsToN, ID. G.
JunclS-u T.. ID. WILLARD, Proprietor.

LNROM LOSDON.-Hedley on Coal Mines and
IL Mining. | vol. London. 1852
Six Familiar Lectures for Young Military of.
GERS, by Field officer. London, ls5l.
Sir Howard Douglass Naval Gunnery, enlarged
edition. London, SOL
Humboldps Travels and Researches, by Macgil.
livray | vol London, 1852
Beecrof's Companion to the Iron Trade. vol.
London, 1851.
suwarrow, and hs Iast Campaign, by Major
Macroady. vol. London, 1851.
Ten Centuries of Art-lts Progress in Europe.
by Humphreys I vol, illustrated. London, 1852.
Pilkingtops Dictionary Of Painters, enlarged
edition. London, 1882.
Merivale's History Of the Romans under the En-
pire, Sd vol. London, 1852.
Ihorpe's Northern Mythology the Traditions
and Suporstitions of Scandinavia, North Germany,
and the Netherlands. vols London, lS52
Louis Napoleon and his History. | vol. London,
1852.
Lieut. Col IIutchinson on Dog Breaking. ] vol
London, 1889.
Turner ON Horse Breaking. | vol. London, 1852
Imported per last steamer by
Mar lS FRANCK TAYLOR.
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-
~ leans, and Mobile Express connecting with the
swifcst and most responsible expresses between the
principal towns ia Maine, New Hampshire, Yer
mont, Massachusctts, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
Lower Canada, New York State, Delaware, Penn.
sylvania, Maryland, District of Columbia Indiana
Ohio, Illinois, the western States generally, the
Mississippi and Alabama river towns, a nd the prom
incnt places in Georgia and the Carolinss
Our facilities arc so extensive and pcrfectthat we
can secure the safe and speedy transportation of
freight, trunks, packages, and valuable parcels.
from one end Of the country to the other, and be-
tween the most remote points.
From our many years experience in the express
business, while connected With Messrs. Adams A
Co, and our numerous advantagesin in othorrcspects,
(not the least of which is the confidence and On
tronag ge of the New York community VIC feel as
sured that shall cease to give tho most en-
tire satisfaction to our friends the jewelers. bank
crs. and merchants generally.
We beg leave to call attention to our California
express from New Orleans, and our express be-
tween New Orleans and Mobile.
Offices, Camp street, New Orleans, and 10 Wall
street, New York. Fcb7
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SII.bhb.Os1

*For the sake Of facilitating comparison, pork
beef, hams, lard, and hides, are included under
this head; and THE course was indeed rendered ne
ccssary by the fact that in several cases, the Trea
tury Reports do not give the separate values Of the
different commodities In converting barrels, &C 4,
into tone, the same course has been pursued in
every case and therefore. If errors exist they bal
ance each other.
Throughout these tables we have given the
whole agricultural exports Of the Northern Satos
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Sugar aud DTolasses

We have here decline OF about twenty five per
cent, accompanying steady increase Of pOpuls-
ton The more corn We export, the less pork.
beef, cheese butter, hemp, lead, sugar and nlolss
. I'VE make, the more rapidly We exhaust the land,
impoyerish the farm, and weaken the State aud
the nation; and yet the honorable member assures
his hearers that not only has quantity UosgV aug
mcnted but that prices have risen, and the nation
is advancing rapidly In the road TO prosperity
The object OF the author Of the tariff of 1886 was
that Of increasing our trade in food with the pen
pie OF Europe. n We would consent 10 rcccire Hetr
Jabrfc at o,c duties, they would permit us 70 feed
their hundreds of millions Of people, and the trade
with them in food would speedily excee,; that la
cotton, great even that was destined 10 be. How
wonderfully the honorable Sccrctary's auticipa-
tions have been realized the following hgurcs will
show:
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nANCING ACADEMY.-FIRsT COURSE

nANCING ACADEMY.-FIRST COURSE
H. Mr.. r. n. Liable has the honor to announce
to the citizens Of Washington, Georgetown, and
Alexandria, that his fret course Of dancing lessons
for the season will commence Thursday, No
vcmber 6, at his room George and Thomas
Parker's grocery store south side of Pennsylvania
avenue, between 9th and 7th streets, opposite
Browns new hotel.
Days softuition-Tucsdays Thursdays, and Sat
urdays.
and taught. Oct22-tf
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SPLENDID SCHEMES OF THE
KENTUCKY STATE LOTTERIES,
For April, 1852.
GREG GORY & MAURY, MANAGERS.

Class f. to be drawn at Covington, Ky, Sa-
turday, April "a, 1852.
75 Number Lottery-I4 Drawn Ballots.
PRIZES: ST. ,567, S25,OO0. $4,000,
$4,000, 100 Of $1,000,
100 of $500, l60 Of $500,
&c. &c. sc.
Whole Tickets only $40; Halves $40; Quarters
So; Eighths So 50
Orders for Tickets and Shares and Certificates of
Packages in the above Splendid Lotteries will re-
ccivc the most prompt attention, and an official ac
count of each drawing sent, Immediately after it 10
over to all who order from me.
Address z. E. O'BRiEN, Agent,
Successor to j Il C. Mauyy, Alcxandria, Va.
Mar 20
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Whole Tickets Halves s 5-Quarters 50 so.
Orders for Tickets and Shares and Certificates
Of Packages in the above splendid Lotteries will
receive the most prompt attention, and an official
account OF each drawing cent Immediately after il
is over 20 oil who order from me-
Address r. +. O'BRIEN, Agent,
(successor 90 J. a &. MauryD
Apl9 Alexandria, Virr{ni,.
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1lY our agreement, bearing same date with the
ID above, Mr.. Snethen's interest in the American
and Foreign Agency ceased the 3lst ult. The
business of the Agency will hereafter be conducted
solely by the undersigned. Office south corner of
Fifteenth street and Pennsylvania avenue, near
the Treasury Department.
AARON H. PALMER, at willard's
WAsHIseToS, January !, 1852.
Jan o-wtf
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woRTHINGTON @. sNEynEN

NONTINUES to practice law in the Supreme
~ Court, 10 attend to cases before Congress, TO
prosecute claims and settle accounts against the
Departments and Boards of Commissioners, to
procure patents Mt home and abroad, to obtain
pensions and bounty lands, to collect dcbts divi-
dende, legacies, and inhcritances in any part Of
the United States and in foreign countries TO make
investments Of funds in loans and stocks and on
bond md mortgage, and 10 negotiate the purchase
and sale OF loans, lands, and patent rights in any
State Of the Union. Particular attention paid 10
California land title coming Up to the United
States Supreme Court on appeal.
Communications prepaid addressed TO "W G.
SSETHEs, Carroll Place, Capitol Hill, Washing
ton, ID. c., )" will meet with prompt attention.
2n-dlv-w
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roKE, TAR, AND LIME on hand, and ,

rOKE, TAR, AND LIME on hand, and for
~ sale at the Washington Gas Works The Coke
as n fuel gives intense heat, and ignitcs almost
as readily charcoal. The Coal Tar il uscd
chiefly paint, for the preservation Of timber
iron, sc. The Lime being highly impregnatcd with
ammonia, s of great value as a manure, and IA
superior TO the ordinary lime when used for that
purpose. Dec 29-tf
IIntellieenccr and Union.
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XXTINE sTORE.-JoHN II. BUTHMANN

A1INE STOHE--JOHN IA. BUTHMANN,
w Pennsylvania avenue, south side, between
a. and 9th streets, has received an invoice Of red
and white French Wines, viz:
Chateau Margaux, Chateau Mouton, Leovie,
ST Pierre, st. Julien, in quartsand pnts, MargauT
Medoc.
Chateau Coutet Haut Barsac, Chateau Sauterne,
Haut- -Sauterne.
Also, invoice of superior London Brown
stout, in pints.
My Olive brand Champagne having arrived at
New York in the ship Yaucusc from Havre, now
expect daily TO receive It, together with choice
assortment Of Wines, Brandics, Cigars, &c
Noy
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SNIDER'S CHEAP WINE STORE,
No. 40 Walnut Street, below Fourth, Phil.


adclphta.
NTINES, LIQ UORS, of all countries, Of direct
w importation from the growers and producers,
to be had cheaper than at any other store, and fur
nished to Members Of Congress and others ut
WAsHINGroN CIrY, on the shortest notice. freight
paid, by "Adams's Express"
SHERRIES, Sparkling CHAMPAGNE, as
MADEIRAS, MOET EXTRA,
PORTS, CLiCQUOT,
RED WINE, DINET,
TENERIFFE, PERRUCHOT,
LISBON. HEIDSICK,
MUSCAT, and many others.
FRONTIGNAN, Sparkling MOSELLE,
MALAGA, HOCKHEIM,
CLARETS, of all sorts, RUDESHEIM,
SAUTERNE. MARCOBRUNN
BURG UNDIES, the larges stoc k in Philadelphia.
BRANDiES of all sorts, Dark and Pale, in casks,
demjohu, or in bottles, with some cheap, and some
very rare and old.
IRISH and SCOTCH WHISKY, MONONGA-
HELA, Bourbon, Jamaica Spirits, Gin, Preserving
Brandy, Blackberry and Wild Cherry Brandies,
Scotch Ale, London Porter and Stout in barrels OF
seven and eight dozen.
most reliable quality, always on hand, wholesale,
or by the quarter-box.
The only establishment where all WINES, &C.,
are sold directly from the original package in
which imported.
Hotels, country trade, and consumers, supplied,
Wholesale and retail, by the cask, demijohn, dozen,
or package Of assorted sorts.
Orders by post or telegraph, giving limit in
price, guaranteed to be satisfactorily filled, or the
goods taken back.
familiar personal acquaintance with all the
principal Wine producing countries of Europe, and
connexion with the best houses there, enable to
offer good articles cheap. Call and examine.
JACOB SNIDER, Ja.,
Cheap Wine Store,
Feb ii rs Walnut street, Philadelphia.