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The prisoner was uun sworl IN ms own behalf and
ha ic tv following statement through IutyIug,tHr
u rtH.ui. uH. '- o. naming unchanged and uaiga.Ius
20 1to. ur1u-hlnt the gcclt4; lie had SHOWN me
ur'tar"I Tor uunuL SIX ytarsf was ultI Itt ia hI4
house on me ..ih ~ JUL the Wachtcs went away IN
NE murhlug ~ mat uay, and Mf. Wnrhtpl rave
hlm the key Of tho house to take caro- Of About 3
O'Clock he dle red himself and went down 10 Ninth
GLASSES d beer, and then went h1moj sat down Ia
'front.' OF me house by ana by he went to the saloon
WIN some friends whom he found tner0 Then, ABOUT
boclock, he started tor Ninth avenue again, when a
SISTER OF MIS-. Machlel came after him anu asked Tor
the Key OF me house, He said he had been there All
hsr NE Sogs wee out She then refused 20 taSe the
NY am went sRAy mad He returned AZ 10 O'Clock TO
NaeAteA there. Ma, Malhtel ceIied llsi az Is4
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Frank MINER plead guilty TO an indictment charg.
Ing rim with burglary, lie was caught In the act OF
entering house in Clinton place a few nights ago
Ire District Attorney informed the Court that the
prisoner in escaping had fred upon the officers who
were attempting to arrest him lie Was sentenced
t. the state Prison for ten years.
Hall dozen other cases were DISPOSED OF in A
simtlr manner when me trial Of Glass was re.
sumCt
The fret witness called was Mrs Fanny wachtel,
the widow of the murdered man. She told
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wuAT A NriGunoR SAW AND mann.

Joseph NJ chaCls, who occupies neghborlup houee
5erarNci .. that OF tue deceasel b, aVacant lot
twu.e iuat on the ulkt In question he was ava. Cnrl
ron lIs sleep b. lie alteration IA WacAcl's yard
heard Nachic saw For Cods sake, let mt alone w
GOT sore hand Nncutpl and his WHO then went
INTO tner room and fastened tlia door II
was a summers ni.ht and the WI lows we're all
open ard he could distinctly hear all that wac sad
u was lso moonlight, and hc could BsIdes tDurc
ME uEht burning In MHCutcl's room. soon alter
Mac"lc E1t mtg Tie toou Gnss cauc 20 thc door asi
illUd q force u OUcu, Witness heard Mt Murutl
tHy, Let him IN; lct him have tlusltctln.' " Ca.
gen let MIN M In apuut two or three seconds witness
heard NacfCl cNclNtm, stained looked across
2ud sa" i"g deceased hll Glass iugn ran out 9t %.
NuN't, AMI Mrs. VACATED followed Gazing "IDlIu."
Wines Identified TIE 0r.slu,r as tio man who ran
uwtN, Tbs occurrence took act about u O'Clock az
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John GuLther was Indicted for larceny He pleade
guilty. When asked Mat he had to say Why ser
teuce should no, be passed upon him. he stated tina
this was his Ors offence. lie was lie said, extremel
poor and bad I've children dependent upon him 70
support lie had been uulblc to obtain work. an
was forced To steal to keep his family nom starys
ton lie was sentenced 10 the State Prison for tw
years.
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RESOLUTION TO PUBLISH LOAN

~ BILL.
Resolved, That the Clerk of Common Council
be authorized to publish in two daily news
papers of this city, daily for four weeks, the
Thursday, February 8, 1870, entitled "An ordi-
nance to create a loan for the building of
bridge over the river Schuylkill at South street,
and for the payment of ground-rents and mort.
ing of Councils after said publication, shall pre-
sent to this Council one of each of said news
papers for every day in which the same shall
have been made. 32524t
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EarIy Use Of Paper.

Mr.. Thomas Wright sends the following in
teresting note to the London Atten@um:-
81 have made little discovery, which 1
think will be considered curious, in the his
tory of paper. believe that the first traces
of the use of paper in Western Europe are
found towards the end of the twelfth century,
and we have no reason to suppose that it was
in use in England until the thirteenth, or
even the beginning of the fourteenth. 1t is
understood to have been brought westward
from Italy, where it was in use earlier; and
believe that our word pGper-a corruption, of
course, of pdpy17lS-is considered to have
been borrowed, with the article itself, from
the French. / saw years ago in Paris-I be-
lieve they belonged to the royal col
lection Gt was in the time of Louis
Philippe)-a few of the earliest documents
on paper known belonging to Western Eu-
rope in the period since the Romans, which
interested me much. They consisted of re-
ceipts, or rather bonds, for money borrowed
from the Jews in the time Of our Coeur dc
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Oxford.

From which point did 1 first see my dream
city? Well, it matters little, for there is no
good point of approach to Oxford now. You
used to enter, believe, by the coach, over
Magdalen bridge, and for long time, as you
came, you could see the gray and ancient
towers and spires appearing out of the ram
part of groves and gardens which skirt the
city. Green meadows stretched, somewhat
fiat, about your road, but your absorbed mind
was fixed on the stately panorama which
stretched before you. There was nothing to
take your attention away from it, nothing to
jar the harmony with which your mind was
preparing itself for the first visit to the au-
gust university. 1t is not so now. This en-
trance is nearly spoiled by the crowding
growth of new red brick cottages that has
sprung up about the town since the building
of the railway. True, they cannot altogether
spoil, although they do greatly mar, the
effect of Oxford seen as you approach it for
the first time. The tall towers and spires
look out grandly into the distance, above
the ring of upstart little huts, and gather
their gardens round them, and fold their
feet in their trees. There you see them
-Magdalene, st. Mary's, Merton, venerable,
gray, and calm, seeming wrapped in their
own abstraction from the hurry of our petty
life, the noisy trains, the fussy engines, the
long stations, and the mushroom growth that
surrounds them. They look out straight into
the distance, and perhaps from their height
do not see, or scarcely notice the impudent
and glaringly new pigmy gathering at their
feet Many, very many years can they count
since their foundations were laid, and these
many years have thus softened their tone
and hushed their new stone in that soft, deli
cious, almost solemn grey. AS many years
have stepped into light and died away in the
shade since these towers were new as the
little red cottages can boast weeks. .-LondOn
,SOcikfD
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A Sunday i'm New York.

From the London Saturday ReUteW.
We are informed by the New York Herald
that 'the new editor of the Oberlin (Ohio)
NeacS has issued salutatory, brief but to the
point. He says:-'We come here to make
money and readable paper. The ''salu-
tatory" of journals which hope to succeed
and of journals which do succeed, and the
yaledictory of journals which fail, might, we
conceive as in Oberlin SO in London, be
reduced to the terse formulary of our Ohio
contemporary. But if we come to
reduce the statement to logical form
the proposition does not admit
of simple conversion. All that
is readable makes money, but we are hardly
prepared to admit that all that makes money
is readable. We have no doubt, for exam
pie, that Mr.. Charles Dickens later novels,
and his readings, now brought positively for
the last time to a final farewell, make money,
but we should be sorry to pronounce the
stories readable or the elocution tolerable.
The New York Herald itself by all accounts
makes money, but its reliability" to use a
probable phrase of its elegant writer's, must
depend upon public taste. Among
many specialties OF this re-
markable paper, and it seems to
be an invention of its own, is giving on
Monday twelve columns of reports of the
various sermons preached and services held
at the different churches and meeting-houses,
tabernacles, conventicles, theatres, and
music halls in New York and Brooklyn. The
reporters and penny ny-a-liners-we beg pardon,
the Journalists engaged on the New York
Herald, like their British brethren, must turn
their hands to everything, and we seem to
detect the same fine Italian hand in the re-
ports Of New York religion and Washington
pleasures. A g Jam at the White
House" and ''the Gossips of Grace
Church and the Beauties of Fashionable Wor-
ship and Lovely Ladies as Aids to Devotion
have the same unmistakable flavor of Jenkins,
Just as we find British chiffonnier of htera
ture adapting the same style of word-paint-
ing to the details of burlesque and to the
Gcumepical Council. We note the fact be
cause, in the impending Americanizing of al
our institutions threatened or promised 10y
Mr.. Bright, we shall probably some day fine
in our Mondays newspapers copious and per
sonal reports of the sermons and dresses ex
hibited at the London churches on Sunday
morning. We have already advanced stel
towards this desirable consummation. Al
ready the Saturday papers, or som
of them, give us a prelibation of the
banquet about to be spread next day by oul
spiritual pastors and masters, and from tn
increasing length of the announcements mad
by ecclesiastical touters of the preachers il
the London churches tomorrow" we conjeC
ture that the churches and the sects alike ar
getting fully aware of the advantages of ad
Vertising. But, as in the case of theatres an
other popular exhibitions, anticipatory advei
tisements ought to find their correlation j
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PROPOSALS.
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES,
H. SEW ERS, ETC.
OFFICE OF CHIEF COMMISSIONER, No. 1o4 s.
PHILADELPHIA, April 1s,


PHILADELPHIA, April 13, 1870.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sealed Proposals will be received at the ONCE Of
the Chief Commissioner OF Highways until IL O'Clock
NJ on MONDAY, 18th instant, for the construction
of Sewer on the line OF RACE Street, from the
Sewer in NINETEENTH Street, to the east side OF
TWENTIETH Street. said Sewer to be con-
structed with brick, circular in form, with
q clear inside diameter OF three feet,
with such manholes as may be directed by the
Chief Engineer and Surveyor The contractor shall
take bills prepared against the property fronting
said sewer to the amount of one dollar and fifty
cents for each nea foot of front each side of the
street much cash paid the balance, as limited
by ordinance, to be paid by the city. The con-
tractor will be required to keep the street and
sewer in good order for three years after the
walton, unless by special contract.
When the street is occupied by City Passenger
Railroad track, the sewer shall be constructed along
side of said track in such manner as not to obsruct
interfere with the safe passage OF the cars thereon
and no claim for remuneration shall be paid the
tractor by the company using said track specified
In Act OF Assembly approved May 8, 1866.
Each proposal must be accompanied by a GER
tifcate that bond has been fled in the Law
Department, as directed by ordinance of May 25,
1860. II the lowest bidder shall not execute a
contract within five days after the work is awarded,
he will be deemed as declining, and will be held
liable his bond for the difference between his bid
and the next lowest bidder. Specifications may
be had at the Department Of Surveys, which will be
strictly adhered to. The Department Of Highways
reserves the right to reject all bids not deemed satis
factory.
All bidders are invited to be present at the time
and place Of opening the said proposals.
MAHLON Ii. DICKINSON,
4143 Chief Commissioner Of Highways
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Lion, given by chiefs who we're starting for
his crusade; and il / remember well, the paper
resembled much that of the fifteenth aud six
teenth centuries, except that it was of rather
ooarser texture 1t would seem as if, in the
West, its use at this early period was known
principally among the Jews. Now, ] am just
passing through the press an edition Of q
GLOSSARY of Latin and English-or, as we
are accustomed to call it, Anglo-Saxon-
Words of, l think, not later than the middle
of the tenth century. We may safely look
upon il as the English of the days of
Athelstan; and in the part of which /
have just received the proof ] find
'PapiTUS, paper. The word paper does not
occur in DIR. Bosworth's, or any other Anglo
Saxon dictionary; but we have here evidence
that it was in use in our language at very
early period, and there cannot be doubt
that we derive il. from the Anglo-Saxons and
have not taken it from the French of the
Middle Ages. But this fact leads us to
another-that our Anglo-Saxon forefathers,
to have the word in an Anglo-Saxon form in
well acquainted with paper itself, and, no
doubt, they found the Roman paper in use
in the island when they came. 1t is a fact,
indeed, which opens to MS several others,
equally new, in the social history of our
Anglo-Saxon forefathers. l need hardly add,
that paper probably never went entirely out
of use in Western Europe after the Roman
times, and little research might still throw
some curious light upon it's history during
the earlier Middle Ages. 1t certainly was not
supposed before that it might be in use
among the Anglo-Saxons.
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SHERiFF's SALE.
G. RI Z r r F'S 8 a l. E.
BY virtue OF a Writ Of Levari Facias TO directed
will be exposed to
PUBLIC SALE,
ATTHE HOTEL OF JOSEPH YARNALL,
In the town of New Castle, New Castle County
Delaware,
ON SATURDAY,
The 23d day OF April A. D. 1870, at o'clock Y. NJ,
the following described
REAL ESTATE, Viz:

All that certain tract parcel of land called the Mile
House Farm, situate lying and being in the hundred and
county of New CASTLE in the State Of Delaware the
town of New Castle, and which is bounded and described
follows to wit t:Beginnng at point in the centre of
the road leading from New Castle to Hamburg lane, oppo
site set the north side of said road and at the
distance of II 10O perches from ditch dividing the land
hereby to be conveyed from land held by T. Tasker
formerly part of Stonham farm thence along the centre
of the said road north @ degrees east II 16O0 perches
to point in the said road opposite the middle of the
ditch aforesaid, thence along the middle of the ditch
aforesaid 3 degrees "a So perches thence
north 49 degrees west A 76O0 perches, north 3si de-
Rrees east O perches the centre of the New Cas-
tie and Frenohtown Railroad along the line of the
said road, weswardly to the line dividing this land from
land of the heirs of Robert Burton deceased thence with
the said dividing line SOUTH nine degrees west 70 perches
north 78 degrees 10 50 perches south degrees
west 80 perches south 5 degrees, east $40 perches,
south degrees west 80 0 perches to the Marsh Bank,
and continuing the IL $40 perches to low.
water mark the river Delaware thence by the line of
lowwater mark the said river to point opposite
the stone the side of the Hamburg road aforesaid and
thence by line at right angles to the said road the
centre of the said road and place of beginning containing
of upland and marsh eighty -four acres or less.
Seized and taken execution property Charles
W. Grant and Isabella his wife, and William H. Paddock
and Laura his wife, and Elmer Clark tenant and
be sold by
JACOB RICHARDSON, Sheriff.
Sheris Office New Castle, April A. d. 1879 [4l2 lot
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THE BALLAD OF DEAD LADIES.

THE BALLAD OF DEAD LADIES.
Francois Villon, 1450.)
Tell me now in what hidden way is
Lady Flora the lovely Roman?
Where's Hipparchia, and where is That's,
Neither of them the fairer woman?
Where is Echo, beheld of no man,
Only heard on river and mere
She whose beauty was more than human!
But where are the SHOWS of yester-year
Where's Heloise, the learned nun,
For whose sake Abeillard, / ween,
Lost manhood and put priesthood on?
(From Love he won such dule and teen y
And where, pray you, is the Queen
Who willed that Buridan should steer
Sewed in a sacks mouth down the Seine?...
But where are the SHOWS of yester-year
White Queen Blanche, like queen of lilies,
With a voice like any mermaiden-
Bertha Broadfoot, Beatrice, Alice,
And Ermengarde the lady of Maine
And that good Joan whom Englishmen
At Rouen doomed and burned her there
Mother of God, where are they then y +
But where are the SHOWS of yester-year?
Nay, never ask this week, fair lord,
Where they are gone, nor yet this year,
Except with this for an overword-
But where are the SHOWS of yester-year
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OITV ORDINANCES.
PHILADELPHIA, March 25, 1870. (
CLrRK's OrFfnR.

COMMON COUNCIL OF PHILADEL-
" PHIA.
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new Poems by Dante Gabriel
ROsSettf.

We select the following poems from the
prOof-sheets of a new volume of remarkable
merit by Mr.. Rossetti:-
THE wooDsPURGE.
The wind tapped loose, the wind was still,
Shaken out dead from tree and hill;
i had walked on at the winds will
] sat now, for the wind was still.
Between my knees my forehead was
Ny lips, drawn in, said not Alas!
Ny hair was over in the grass,
My naked ears heard the day pass.
My eyes, wide open, had the run
OF some ten weeds TO fix upon;
Among those few, out OF the sun,
The woodspurge lowered, three cups in one.
From perfect grief there need not be
Wisdom or even memory;
One thing then learnt remains to me-
The woodspurge has cup Of three.
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JOHN OF TOURS.
(Old French.)

(Old French.)
John of Tours is back with peace,
But he comes home i'll at ease.
GOOD morrow, mother. ''Good morrow, son
Your wife has borne you little one"
"Go now, mother, go before,
Make me q bed upon the floor;
Every low your foot must fall,
That my wife hear not at all. -
As it neared the midnight toll,
John of Tours gave up his soul.
''Tell me now, my mother my dear,
What's the crying that hear?"
Daughter, the children are awake,
Crying with their teeth that ache"
''Ten me though, my mother my dear,
What's the knocking that hear?"
Daughter, it's the carpenter
Mending planks upon the stair"
'tTell me too, my mother my dear,
What's the singing that hear?"
Daughter, it's the priests in rows
Going round about our house."
"Tel me then, my mother my dear,
What's the dress that should wear?"
Daughter, any reds or blues,
But the black is most in use.
''Nay, but say, my mother my dear,
It's that John of Tours is dead"
Mother, let the sexton know
That the grave must be for two;
SAY, and still have room to spare,
For you must shut the baby there"
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~ PHIA.
CLERKS OFFICE,
PHILADELPHIA, March 25, 1870.
in accordance with resolution adopted by
the Common Council of the City of Philadel-
phia on Thursday, the twenty-fourth day OF
March, 1870 the annexed bill, entitled An
Ordinance to authorize n loan for the erection
of bridge across the river schuylkill at Fair
mount" lie hereby published for public infor-
nation.
JOHN ECKSTEIN,
Clerk of Common Council
An oRDIN.A NCE
N To Authorize Loan for the Erection OF q
Bridge across the River Schuylkin at Fair
mount. .f.f
Section /. The Select and Common Councils
of the city of philadelphia do ordain, That the
Mayor of Philadelphia be and he is hereby au
thorized to borrow, at not less than par, on the
credit of the city corporation. from time to
time, such sums of money as may be necessary
to pay for the construction and erection of a
bridge over the river Schuylkill at Fairmount
not exceeding in the whole the sum of seven
hundred thousand dollars, for which interest
not to exceed the rate of six per cent. per an
mum shall be paid half-yearlv, on the first days
of January and July, at the Office of the City
Treasurer.
The principal of said loan shall be payable
and paid at the expiration of thirty years from
the date of the same, and not before, without
the consent of the holders thereof; and certif-
Gates therefor, in the usual form of certificates
of city loan, shall be issued in such amounts as
the lenders may require, but not for any frac-
tional part of one hundred dollars, or, If re-
quired, In amounts of five hundred or one thou
sand dollars; and II shall be expressed in said
certificates that the said loan therein mentioned,
and the interest thereof, are payable free from
all taxes.
Section Q. Whenever any loan shall be made
by virtue thereof, there shall be, by force of this
ordinance, annually appropriated out of the
! income of the corporate estates and from the
sum raised by taxation. a sum sufficient to pay
| the interest on said certificates and the fur
| ther sum of three-tenths of one per centum on
| the par value of such certificates SO issued,
| shall be appropriated quarterly out of said in
| come and taxes to sinking fund, which fund
| and its accumulations are hereby especially
pledged for the redemption and payment of said
| certificates. LIZ
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JOHN ECKSTEIN,
Clerk of Common Council.

AN ORDINANCE TO CREATE A LOAN
"A FOR THE BUILDING OF A BRIDGE
OVER THE RIVER SCHUYLKILL AT SOUTH
GROUND RENTS AND MORTGAGES.
Section 1. The Select and Common Councils
of the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That
the Mayor of Philadelphia be and he is hereby
authorized to borrow, at not less than par, ON
the credit of the city, from time to time, one
million five hundred thousand dollars, to be ap-
piled as follows, viz.:-First. For the building
of bridge over the River Schuylkil at South
street, eight hundred thousand dollars. Second.
For the payment of ground rents and mort
cages, seven hundred thousand dollars, for
which interest not to exceed the rate of six
yearly on the first days of January and
july at the Office of the City Treasurer.
The principal of the said loan shall
be payable and paid at the expiration of thirty
years from the date of the same and not before,
without the consent of the holders thereof; and
the certificates therefor, in the usual form of the
certificates of the City Loan, shall be issued in
such amounts as the lenders may require but
not for any fractional part of one hundred or
one thousand dollars; and it shall be expressed in
said certificates that the loan therein mentioned.
and the interest thereof are payable free from all
taxes.
Section 2. Whenever any loan shall be made
by virtue thereof, there shall be, by force of
this ordinance, annually appropriated out of
the income of the corporate estates, and from
the sum raised by taxation, sum sufficient to
pay the interest on said certificates and the
further sum of three-tenths of one per centum
on the par value of such certificates so issued
shall be appropriated quarterly out of said in
come and taxes to sinking fund, which fund
and its accumulations are hereby especially
pledged for the redemption and payment of said
certificates.
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COMMON COUNCIL OF PHILADELPHIA.
~ CIERK's OFFIcR

PHILADELPHIA, Feb 4, 1870.
In accordance with a Resolution adopted by
the Common Council of the City of Philadei-
phia, on Thursday, the third day of February,
1870, the annexed bill. entitled
IAN ORDINANCE
To create loan for the building of a bridge
over the River Schuylkill, at South street,
and for the payment of ground rents and
mortgages, is hereby published for public in
formation.