The New York Herald Newspaper, November 25, 1855, Page 6

6 . The Commerce and Resources of Africa: TO GRORGE LAW, ESQ.:— The interest which, on various occasions, you have manifested in the establishment of a trade between the United States and Africa, induces me to address you in this form, in relation to that important sub- ject. Having resided for many yours ia Africa, in an of- ficial capacity, and having revently visited by your direction, the most interestine ports of that wonder- ous and prolific country, inuin. rable opportunities have been afforded me of observing the manners and customs of the people, «i of investigating the forms of government under which they live. The avenues of their commerce have also been opened to me ina manner so extensive and complete that I propose to avail myself of the knowledge I have ac- quired thus practically, as well as from various reli- able resources, to give a few hints to my mercantile countrymen, by which they may improve their long neglected interests in the valuable trade of the ac- cessible portions of that region. Thave already, in other papers, published in the HeRaxp, given several extended sketches, embody- ing much that relates to the habits and social life of many African wibes; principally of those, however, inhabiting the so-called Empire of Morocco, by far the most interesting and populous of all the North- ern or Barbary States. It is not my intention now to repeat what I have heretofore said, touching the social relations of the people, except so far as I may find it mecessary to illustrate my present design of de- veloping the commerce of the country, the trade of the coasts and its waters, the facilities of approach to its marta, and the interchange of ovr own pro- Aucts and mannfactures for its rich and v luable merchandise, the rare fruits which are the sponta- neous growth of the soil, and the vast metallic riches with which the conntry everywhere abounds, It would, however, be doing great injustice to the subject,in a single paper, condensed as this must be, to attempt to embrace the commercial features of the whole of Africa. A passing glance at the present state of its prominent countries muy seem necessary and proper, in order the more fully to in- vestigate the resources of a particular region to which I design shortly to cail your attention. Take, then, the map or chart before you, and tra- verse that great inland sea, the Mediterranean. It has been big with the destinies of commerce, 9/ vivili zation, and of the world. The advent of Christianity belongs to its Asiatic arm, the Levant. The intro- duction of commerce and navigation belongs to the same region; and we are indebted to the Phenicians, the daring navigators aud “merchant princes” of Tyre, for the first impulses which no only laid the foundation of their own astouishi nationality and greatness, but peopled the sho of the sea with colonies, built cities, a established nations upon its borders, from it. Eastern end even to the pillars set up by Hercules. | Indeed that distinguished Tyrean hero, who united the characters of navigator, merchant and discoverer, lived to satiafy the deathless motto,‘ Ne Plus Utra,” engraved upon his pillars; for, passing through the Straits of Gibraltar, which, until the beginning of the present century, was called the “ Strait of Her- cules,” he not only founded Gudiz, the “ City of the Sea,” the oldest city that has survived to Europe of all the cities of antiquity, but pushed his enterprises into the ocean, and exchanged the commodities of Tyre for the tin and copper ores of Cornwall, in the then far off country of England. In that day such mercantile enterprises were truly Herculean Ac- cordingly, in the otherwise almost fabulous history ot surrounding nations, especially in that of Egypt | and Greeece, we find them setting up claims to the birth-right of the Tyrean Hercules, appropriating and magnifying his great actions and successes, in- corporating them with their own histories, and weaving them into their own peculiar aunals. So popular did his name become, that it is recorded by a comparatively modern historian that no less than twenty-seven distinct nations disputed in after years for the honor of his nativity, or rather cach one set up the original hero for its own peculiar pro perty. In this respect Hercules nearly qnadrupled the ciaimants of Greece for the birth-right of Homer, for we are told, as near as I can repeat the verse, that Seven Grecian cities claimed greit Homer, “ead, Through which, alive, the poet bagged his bread. Cadmua, the inventor of letters, was also claimed by Egypt and Greece; but here, again, the Pheeniciane are ahead of them. Cadmus was a native of Tyre, and while the sixteen or seventeen letters invented by him—receiving long afterwards @ few Ionian additions—are still extant in the writ ten literature of the early or Phonician Irish, who were undoubtedly colonized during the career of Hercules and his followers, not a particle of similari ty 1s discovered in the hieroglyphical language of Egypt, which, nevertheless, has an undoubted and remote antiquity of its own. The Egyptians and Greeks were vain and covetous, and we may there- fore well imagine why these people songht to ap- propriate the successful labors of others. Besides, the Egyptians were systematically aud super- stitiously afraid of venturing upon the sea, and never were @ maritime race; and if we may believe their own early history at all, we have the recorded fact that an Egyptian King, called Necho, em- ployed the Pheenisians, or Tyreans to explore the eastern and southern coasts of Africa, which they did, in three years’ voyage, repairing their vessels and planting and reaping crops the while upon the coasts, passing down the Red Sea, doubling the southern extremity, now called the Cape of Good Hope, and returning along the “western coast, by the way oi the Strait of Hercules. And as to the Greeks, itty at least equally authon tic, that long before they navigated any sea or owned or had built a single veasel, the ships o ‘Tyre were found trading in the Grecian ports, and the Tyreans were there ihuting alike their m: chandise and their letters. Besides, we are assure that the Tyreans refused to suffer the mysteries o their trade and navigation to be pryed into, and we have a noted historical instance recorded, in which the ignorant but ambitious Greeks attempted to get at the cecreta of the commercial prosperity of the Phoniciana. After the Greeks had succeeded in building ships, (the ships of that period were not larger than the small latteen ceatt of the pr day,) it is reported that a passing trader icom Tyre was followed by a Greek vessel, for the purpose of ascertaining whither she was bourid. and where sly would discharge her cargo. The Tyrean captain either suspecting or knowing the de ign of his ful lower, led kim among the rocks of the coast, and thus, at the cost of his own vessel and cargo, was the means of desteoying the hopes of the Greek, for both ships were founderedin the dangerous Archi- pelago. The city of Tyre, howevor, afterwards be stowed high encomium upou its spirited mariner, and remunerated him for bis sacrifices. The secrets of the trade “ bibeanng'/ they did live’ were thus long and well kept by the Tyreang, until other peo- ple became as adventurous as themselves. Thus the great inland sea witnessed and furnished the facilities for the first efforts of commerce; aud in the course of time, in the 8 Sw of ages if you please, the commerce of the iterrancan became the commerce of the world. In it not wii f of notice, as a of modern travel and history, whenever we speak or think of the Mediterranean we are liable to a singular ‘gy as to ite having a south- ern boundary? In all vur aspirstions of travel, on the consts and among the isles of that delightful and alluring mi sea—in all our anticipated pleamres connected with its cloudless skies, deli- cious fruits, and imposing monuments, are we not apt to forget that the same sun shiues oxt upon the African coast as well as upon the Huropean— that the same cloudless sky and tinted sunset —| early and the later rain—the same fruits—are common there, while the African monuments an’ remains are more ancient and more ny tends than those of ita opposite neighbor? Take the countries which *cem universally assi; to the wandering Ham and his descendants—. maret, Trl poli, Tunis, Algiers and Morocco, and the in! of their well authenticated hi will bear comparison with that of the countries of the opposite shore, namely: Turkey, Greece, Italy, France and Spain. The ame “ corn, wine and oil,” are still prodaced there asin ancient times; and as to the fraita of the earth, you can say no move for the European side— “Call, tuve the spirit of man, is divine!” The hills and the valleys are still green us ever—man, only tas changed. § rominent featare It is a great error to nppose that the region north of the Atlas is the inkeritance ‘of ‘the neon <here are nations there whose poople are as fair in NEW YORK HERALD. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1855. befo to the land of the yp 7s come nd 0 negro. tia, and betwee rivers Senegal and Gambia, on the coasts of the Gulf of Guinea, and the South- ern Atlantic, and on_ the Coast of ey ag ds which borders on the Indian Ocean. By far the richest and most interesting of his country lies north of the mountains of Kong and Mandara; and above all is that central mart of the caravans, Timbuctoo, the emporium of ves, of gold, of gums and of wool, aud the consumer and distributor of the manufactures and other mercan- tile exchanges of Europe. And yet, siagular as it may seem, the name of America is more generally known in that distant land than that of any Euro- pens country; but, it must be said, alao, that the in- luence of our name enures to the profit of the Ku- ropean, who stamps it upon the merchandise of his traffic, a8 surest to success. That great field cf operation is open to us, and should have been ours long ago. The enterprise of America has not sought it out; and until we transplant our energies, and seek an active (wypeecenn and con- trol in the business affairs of the country, we must, of Soe Seep Sonepat of what, to me, seems easy of accomplishment. Heturning, however, to the North of Africa, from which I have rather prematurely digreased, it is part of my duty to that the character and bearing of the people, Be their general government, have been materially changed towards us and other Chris- tian nations within, comparatively, a few years. Where, thirty or forty years ago, we were hardly tolerated, and were accounted as 80 many Christian dogs, aud spat upon by the Moslem, there, where piracy existed, where our people were enslaved, our Versels contiseated, and, to the infinite disgrace of the age, we, and all Chris- tendom puid tribute to the intrinsically weak- est lowers of the earth, we now have immunity and protection, and can command the amicabie cousideration which prevails elsewhere among civi- lized natious. You will recollect that our naval ma- rine, under Decatur, gave the first taste of our qua- ae to Tripoli, which the English, under Exmouth, followed up by a stronger, but not more exemplary, lesson in the same year; that Tunis, while the ‘re- spectable Mr. Noah represented us there, was given distin« tly to understand that we were not only able but determined to punish aggression ; and you may remember that the insult offered to a consul was visited by the terrible retribution of his coun- trymen in the conquest and armed occupation of Algiers by the French, 80 that Mohammedan rale is apparently for ever blotted out from that country. The means, the cruelty and equally criminal deceit by which this last feat was accomplished are still fresh in your memory. When I think of these out- rages—a part of which came under my immediate notice at the time—I do not think the intelligence of my countrymen will rate me with the Pharisee when I thank God that Americans are not as e other people are, and especially that we are not like wnto modern Frenchmen. Would the Americans, think you, kindle a fire in 0 te men, women, and ubdue even the Arabs? Would falsity the pledged h@hor of one ot ief o s, when the leader of an opposing y shonld come forth and surrender himself and word, declaring that to save his people and to jop the effusion of blood, he would war co more, and was thereupon promised protection and the guaranty of his liberty? No; the Americans would do none of these things. We willleave all the honor to such nations as England, to imprison an enemy like Napoleon, who cast hina upon its generosity, and we will leave the discreditable chapter to be written out in modern French history, which tells the story of French cruelties in Algiers, and the im- prisunmient of the trusting and gallant Ab-bel-Kadir, who enrrvendered himself upon the princely guar- anty of the Duc D’Ammale, and is still held in dis- graceful captivity by Louis Napoleon. But the pledge of faith. given by the son of Louis Philippe, and disregarded by the father, whoze high preten- sions to national dignity and honor were held up as examples to crowned heads, and from whom we ex- pected 4 more manly conduct, is of higher atrocity, and even more deserving of execration than the faithless conduct of bis successor, who presuming upon the prestige of the name of Napoleon, sets ~ tha aud pledges and laws and constitutions at de- tance, and tramples upon all law, human and di- vine. We are taught to expect nothing better froin one who is evidently the degenerate scion of a once Magnificent stock. But the demonstration of France against Algiers‘ and against one other of the Barbary powers, exhi- bited in the bombardment of Tangier and Rabat, has had an effect, which, joined to our own and other national resentments, has been salutary. Though the end does not justify the means in the case of France and Algiers, the effect has been to check the overweening disposition of the Barbary owers tending towards hostility to Christian States. The Arab and the Moor begin to see the handwriting upon the wall; and they are admonish- ed that a couformity with the laws that govern civilized nationsis their only security against a fate like unto that of Algiers. The season, then, is propitious tor mercantile operations in that quarter, perhaps more so now than it has been for several centuries past. There is no longer a Barbarossa, nor the Rover of Sallee; the ban of exclusion is withdrawn, aud the Custom House is gradually and surely taking the place of the cordon of non-intercourse which surrounded and kept guard upon the coasts of Africa. Indeed, our commerce is now invited where but a few years ago the artificial wants of the people were supplied by piracy and smuggling. will now call your attention to a project which has received the sanction of many eminent public men in this country, and towards which not a few merchants of high standing and ample means have entertained faverable views; but the sauction and impress of our general (Sasa appear to be the only things lacking in this, one of the happiest and @ prop ions, if fairly borne out, destined to carry civilization on its wings, and to bring wealth and great national honor and credit to nS as a people. It is this:—The proposed enterprise consists in belichent a line of steamers, which, with its b-anches, shall traverse the seas upon the Western Coast of Africa, and penetrate the whole length of the Mediterranean. The uses to which such woe may be put are substantially and briefly these:— 1. The transportation of free negroes from the United States to Liberia. 2. The carrying of the mails. 3. ‘The transportation of merchandise. The carrying of the Pilgrims on their way to he carrying, ou the return voyage, of the 13, who now assume the name of Hadjés; the certain and expeditions transportation of the fruit and other products of the Mediterranean; and the greater facility afforded to passengers from Centrai Hurope to America, whose expenses of travel will be (y diminished by embarking at the South o! France insiead of at the usual Western ports, It would be useless for me, at this time, to at- tempt to «peak of the popularity of the Colonization Society of this country, or of its success in establish | ing upon the shores of Africa a prosperous and even } powerful republic, in the midst of surrounding des. potirm itis no longer an experiment, but a we settled and well organized arrangement, which al ready numbers its thousands of emigrant po} lation, and its haadreds of thousands of native allies who are receiving its protection, under the guarantees of the three most powerful nations of the earth, name- ly, the United States, Engiand and Prance. The of the republic of Liberia is fally and tically acknowledged by these countries. We recvive accounts almost weekly of its prosperity and ‘of the happiness of its people. The mechanic arts. its agriculture and commerce, are in a flourishing condition, and the manners and moral habits of the Liberians are themes over which civilization may unfeignedly rejoice. If we would more fally carry out the great design of our truly national association, the Colonization aaeert and at the same time relieve ourselves of a disturbing element, we must give our aid to this ob ject, not only by personal and individual countenance and support, but by invoking the assistance of the general government in that behalf. I am convine- ed that nothing would more thoroughly contribute to this end, than the establishment of a line of pow erfol steam vessels, to leave this country from vari. ons points, monthly, on board of which the free co lo} Pogson of the several States may take pas- sage for Liberia, fora sum so reasonable as to be within the reach of all,even the very poorest. If the eflicient aid of the government can be obtained the pasaage money need not exceed the sum of ten dollars for each individaal, inclading ample and wholesome rations for the voyage. At the present moment there is some backwardness or hesitation pre vailing among many of our colored population, aris- ing from unnecessary fears of the dangers of the sex, the length and inconveniences of the yoyage bysailing vervels, and the bi of return to country, should the inducements to remain in Liberia prove unsatisfactory. All these difficnities, real or imaginary, would be obviated at once by the es- tablishment of a regular line of steamers between the two countries. The emigrant, instead of in- dulging in misgivings, would hasten to take his de- ture, and in fuct take pleayure in going to sea. ho does not remember the terrors inspired by; voyage round Cape Horn, before the em, be ment of steamers? Who is there that did not look upon a bd California as the dreaded business of years? Who, with the facilities of steam navigation, thinks of it at the present day as anything more hazard- ous than a pleasure voyage, consoming only days instead of weeksor months? The ability to return hy the same means has contributed to put all the terrors of the voyage to flight. The yoyage to Live. ria is but as days to the weeks of the long route to California, and the introduction of the saine means of transportation to the coast of Africa will as ef- fectually dispel almost the thought of danger or pri- For various reasons, I would not recommend nor employ steamers of great tonnage. The o! i view would never be attained by vessels of x- traordinary tonnage indicated by certain projectors whose enlarged and magnificent views, heretofore promulgated, would fasten upon our government unwieldy ships of four thousand tons, the Eatiang and ao of which would re- nicalcul; sums. ides, when built, y could not approach any desired anchorage nd upon the coast of Africa, nor enter any of livers. Their draft of water would compel them to be kept at sea, often out of sight of land, and al- ways outof the line of the sphere of usefulness. They never could be filled with passengers, and never could command, upon auy single voyage, car- go enough to ballast them. Steamers drawing not over nine er ten feet when loaded, of oze thousand to one thousand five hun- dred tons at most, plainly finished and furnished, with powerful engines and of good model, are such as are required for this service; and of such as these you can build and equip eight vesseis of the kind would require, and do here recommend, for every single mammoth steamer heretofore 8 a ge 0 these, five steamers are sufficient for vst experi- ment, and would be entirely adequate for the presen demand, and to render the whole design successfu as far as the western coast of Africa is concerned. To these five steamers I would add the othor three of the same construction, avd the same plain equipment, for the navigation of the Mediterranean The constant and regular service of these vessels should be established upon such sure calculations that the very day almost may be set down in the calendar for their intersection of each other, for their interchange of passengers and mails. Now, once more, let me ask you to cast your eyes upon the map or chart that represents the Atlantic Ocean, the western coast of Africa, and the Medi- terracean. From a scientitic admeasurement which Tobtained in Washington, at the quarters of tae Coast Survey, Ihave ascertained that the distance in a direct fine is, from— New Vork to Liberia +++ 8,900 miles. Baltimore “+ 31900 « Charleston <¢ 3,260 « New Orlesna © 4,850 These distances cou an average passage, in fifteen cays. From Liberia to Gibraltar the distance may be assumed to be not far from 1,800 miles, by ranning over 30 degrees of latitude, say from 6 deg. to 36 deg. north. From Gibraltar I will assume that the distance to nae or to Alexandria, in Egypt, is 2,000 miles. 'The calculation, then, may be easily made as to the times of interacction of the steamers, the day of departure from any of the prominent starting points being given. Then my sperasone would be as follows :— On a certain day in every month a steamer shall depart from the United States, whose paramount business shall be, first, to receive and carry all free persons of color, and then to receive and carry such merchandise or freight as may beoffered. The mails for ports in Africa aud for the Mediterranean, and for the East Indies, must of course be accom- modated, under our government and Post Office regulations. he passage of these monthly steamers may be made ‘direct 0 Liberia, where their passengers may be first landed, and the mails can wards be de- livered at Gibraltar for distribution; or, by a slight and not expensive deviation from the direct track, the mails may be landed at Gibraltar in the first place, even without coming to anchor, (except fuel or provisions are necessary), and the vessel may at once be put upon her course southward to Liberia. Returning thence, there are many ports upon the western coust of Africa which would remunerate the owners of the steamers for stopping at them ; and not the least of their profits would arisé from the numerous Moslem pilgrims who are enjoined by the Koran once. at least, in their lives, to visit Mecca. the tomb of their Prophet, who nuw go by painful and expensive marches across the Great Desert to the borders of the Red Sea. In addition to this, there is an open trade for us at the Cape de Verde and Canary Isles, which, for many of our products and manuiactures, is us valuable as any other upon the coast. The vessel, thus returning, would be brought to anchor at Gibraltar; or in case of any difficulty with the English authorities at that place, there is equally good anchorage at Algerisas on the Spanish side of the same bay, or in the harbor of the Moorish port of Tangier, (the best and safest of all the bays of the Mediterranean); and in both places the authorities would gladly re ceive our vessels and furnish them with Peo piane @ hundred per cent cheaper than can be obtained at Gibraitar, which is itself supplied principally from Tangier. Indeed, I have often wondered at the per- versity of purpose, or the obliquity of vision, of our naval commanders in the Mediterranean, who have serge this convenient port without notice, to lay up heir ships and purchase their supplies in the most inconvenient and exacting corners of the northern shere. This is a day of activity and stirring enter- prise, and the world requires looking after. Our commerce move than pays for our navy, and army and civil list; and commerce may’, therefore, well re- ‘cue the active protection of our navy abroad. ur government ships are much more required at places frequented but rarely than in the crowded ports of commerce. Fox example, if our ships of war rent to the Mediterran an had invariabl id frequent visits to the ports of Barbary, and main- tained commerce with the people, and got their ne. cessary iene from among them, you would not now be reading of new or neglected avenues to com- mercial enterprise. Had such been the case, the effect of our ef naval demonstration— namely, that of simply showing onr ship:. and exhibiting our courtesy, by wasting a tew pounds of powcer—would have had this great in fluence over the Moorish mind--our power and our nation would be known, respected and feared, and the entries of a hundred ships of ours would have been registered in their ports, for every single one which, within the last ten or twenty years, has strayed from the worn-out and profitiess track of a commerce now hardly worth pursuing upon the northern shore of the Mediterranean, by reason of the competition that meets you at every turn. ‘We are now upon the Mediterranean, and the question is, how are the steamers to be employed upon that sea, in conjunction with those of the “Af- rican line? Theve are your fruit and wine countries of Spain, France, Italy, e, and Asia Minor, in the north, whose ports of seilles, Monaco, Genoa, Floreuce, Messina, Naples, Palermo and Smyrna. are familiar to you as houseliold words. Some of them also send ns the silks which we abundantly consume; and some of them, in as great abundance the rags, which are woven into the foundation o: English literature. Upon the southern shore you have a mission yet to perform, at the Isthmus o Suez; the mouths of the Nile, and its great com- mercial cities sre open to us, and we are invited t enter the ports of Tripoli and Tanis—(I will not enumerate Algeria)—and of Morocco I will speak presently. Well, what of all these ? I hear you ask. Let the countless cargoes of deteriorated, damaged and ab solutely spoiled fruit landed npon our shores, after protracted voyages in sailing ships, give the anawer he oranges, the figs, the raisins and the rants the rotten fruits and the rancid oils, the decaying productions, the state and damaged delicavies of the earth as they come to us, speak louder than I car inreply, letthe tardy mails of the Bast Ind coming throngh the Red Sea and r the Isthmas of Suez, to be distriiuted in English post oitives conveying the news of the tinctuations of trade and the building up or rain ot mereaatile hopes which information 's taken advantage of by Knog lish merchants, thirty or forty, nay, a hundred day= before the knowledge cores to us, lot all this answe. for Suez and for Egypt. Let the absence of our trading ships in African ports, which are filled by Buropean vessels, palming their own merchandise off for ours, let this also help to answer. The Mediterranean steamers of America, then lying swiftly, steadily and panctually, would start rom Gibraltar, touching on the African side at Tangier, Tunis, Tripoli, and other ports for the pil- grims to be landed at Alexandria, or at the post most convenient forthem to pursue their course to Mecca, the vessels having in the meantime received those pasren; taken from the westera coast by the Atlantic ships, This done, I would take in the mails from the East, touch at Siayrna for cargo and passengers, through the Greek Archipe- lago, touch at Messina and Palermo, taking in the fresh and valuable fraits of Sicily, which now form a distinct trade for the employment of sailing yos- vels, and then [ would bear up for Marseilles. Here, as I'before hinted, will not only be found freight of valuable merchandise, but hundreds of second class passengers, composing the emigrant population of central Europe, who will eagerly embrace this shorter and less expensive route to America in pre ference to any er. The next principal point will be Malaga, at which, as at all the fruit depots of the Mediterranean, the steamer will command, by the certainty and swiftness of her movements, enough cargo, at good raies, to load her to her ut- most capacity. On the same day on which she takes her departare from Malaga the steamer may cast anchor at Gibraltar, and transfer her passon- gers, her mails and her freizht to the Athntic steamer, which in ten or twelve days thereafter will each onr own shores, with cargo uninjared by de- lays, and passengers unworn by lengthened travel. ‘Sueh, then, is the round voyage | would pursue, ond it {a ae simple in its arrangement as it is practi- cable. It is only within a few years pod that steamers have been placed in the Mediterranean, and already they are all successfal, and regard- ed os introducing a new era in the trade nd transportation upon that sea. It ig with from my own kcow! nd experience, that the, areall far behind American steaners in swiftness acd pride that I am able to say, ledge ai 3 and a | majority of those lew York would take Mediterrauean. ra i sub) bare rg 8 Head nor new to our 8 long ago as 1848, while still in the ‘Consulate onsulate of Morocco, I my views, similar in substance to these now nid before you, in the hands of the executive of the United States, and I have not ceased to urge them at every proper opportunity upon the depart- ment to which my papers were naturally consigned. The government, much to my regret, has not yet acted upou my Pre We may invent or peti Be Papen ees nd Leg hee in mercantile en 3; and most es clally vine our government appear determined not to lend its aid, to any great extent, to these enterprises that would surel; up its naval marine, at small cost, and place it upon a footing of such power and effect as to enable it to mate itself with any other in the world. Yet, sincerely, I trust that I may be de- ceived in the appearances of this delay, and find that, tavagh late, we may Pcs have opportunity to 1ake part in the progress of the age, and seize upon some of the mercantile advantages that are con- stantly turning up, but as often turned away from our embraces, merely because our government looks coldly on, aud stoically refuses to lend its fostering encouragement to individual effort. Sec, now, how precisely this statement tallies with the anticipated occurrences of the day. No sooner was it promulgated that American citizens were seeking aid from the American government ‘o establish a line of steamers to run upon the coast of Atrica, than the same project is seized upon b; the British government, and boldly carried into ef- fect. Now, 1 am not sorry for this. We have been anticipated, it is true, and the honor of being first ractically in the field is borne off by our competi- ; but isthe field entirely pre-occupied by Eng- lish enterprise? By no means. There is an entire continent of over one hundred millions of people for customers and consumers, and neither the three British steamers spoken of, nor thirty, nor three hundred, can exhaust the trade or satisfy the de- mands upon commerce. I am glad that the ex- ample is saath set by the British government of iviog, ample pecuniary eneourameneat to these ships, which we may safely predict will be more than remunerated by the carne of the British mails, and more than quadrup! yy the imposts upon merchandise. It is, therefore, not an act of absolute generosity, but a trifling loan upon the se- curity of undoubted returns. 1 would not think of asking from my own government a more liberal aid than is thus freely and cheerfully given to the proprietors of the English’ line. We also have an advantage in the establish- ment of that line. While the English stea ers do not, nor can they by any possibility, preoc- cupy our ground, they save us from encounterin; the drawbacks usually attendant upon a first experi- ment, and, in fact, open a way for us in a surer suc- cess.” Look for a’ moment at the official returns of the British commerce in that quarter, south of the equator, for the year 1849. They are stated to be at seven millions of dollars for the British merchandi: alone landed upon that part of the coast of Africa, and then sold or exchanged for eight millions of dol- lars worth of the most valuable and saleable prodac- tions of the country. This is exclusive of the trade with the north and northwestern coasts, which alto- Gothen amount to at least thirty millions of dollars. hile the British goverument or its custom houses acknowledge these enormous sams as the results of their trade, you may rest assured that double these amounts should be given for the illicit traffic cer- tainly carried on inevery quarter to which their ships have access. I do not guess at this matter; I have seen it with my own eyes; and with this occular conviction Iam sure that the half is not told. Suc- cessful as they may be, however, the British cannot compete with us in the main objects of our proposed ne of African steamers, the carrying and transplant- ing of our free colored population, the mail service, and the transportation of American produce and manufactures. That they have had the lion’s share of the general trade is true, and it is equally true that the fault is ours. At the time of the suppres- sion of the piratical armaments of the Barbary powers, say in the year 1816, the mercantile marine of all nations had an equal chance to engage in the trade of Africa. Our own veasels were the pioneers, but I regret to say we did not follow up our advan- tages, and England, France, and other European nations step) in. Although they did not supplant us, they maintained a constant and an increasing activity, which finally resulted in the employment of ahundred European vessels to our one, or two or three, as will be shown by the arrivals and depart- ures, and the general statistics of African trade. Tuomas N. Cara. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. MONEY MARKET. Sarurvay, Nov. 24—6 P.M. The favorable effect of the favorable foreiga news wa- short lived. It Iasted about twenty-four hours. We saw indications yesterday of a relapse, and to-day itis conirm- ed. At the first board, Virginia 6’s declined 44 per cent; Mlinois Central Bonds, %; Nicaragua Transit, 1¢; Cam- berland Col, 14; Canton Company, 14; Erie, 1; Reading, 34; Michigan Southern, %; Galena and Chicago, ‘4. There was not much doing in any stock. Erie closed dul! aud weak, as did Reading and Cumberland. Nicaragus remains about the same, with very little demand for the stock. Western railroad stocks were quiet, but not firm. The market appears to be with difficulty sustained Buyers are daily becoming searcer and more cautions, and holders do not feel at ail ¢ xnfortable, loaded dowa ax they are with all sorta of stocks. In view of the large dividends some of the Western railroad companies will pay within the next sixty days, it would not, i opinion, be unwise to purcbase that class of stocks, pro vided itis ¢one onty to the limit of one’s available If there is a stock on the list that would justify purcliases for hypotheeation, it is Galena and Chi th moderate margins a large amount could be carned, an the dividends are likely to be so enormous that the in- terest account alone will give large profits. At the second board the market was a shade or two bet ter. Nicaragua Transit advanced 14 per cent; Central bones, 34; Cumberland, 34; Brie, 3g; Re: 44; Cleveland and Yoledo, 14; Michigan Sodthern, 4. ‘The foliowingare to-day’s transactions at the Assistant Treasurer’s office:— Paid on Treaswy aecount... Reseived te Balance “ Vaid for Aseny office. . Paid on disbursing chesks. 25,812 1 Balance to credit all accounts 1,972 8) The warrants entered at the Treasury Department Washington, on the 224 inst., were av follows #or the redemption of stocka. for the Treasury Department, Yor the Interior Pevartment.. For the Customs... ...666 War warrants received and entered... War repay warrants received and eaicied.. (nm account of the Navy... our ang. 0, for wi 811 10412 6 Stock Exchange. Sarcepay, Noy. 96 100 shares 1000 Hari 1st 1060 do 2000 Hud R ist) 9000 Hl Cen KR Bie. 7 Jersey ing RR rr ov ig \0 sha Am Ex . 11S do 100 Nie Tran Co..b60 18 200 do 100 do, #3 1534 100 do vi 164, 200 de 15% 400 do 0 15% 100 do R vik 99) do. 50 Mich so &N laRR 91 10 Ob Rad 2 Milwau &Miss RR BOARD. 910000 Loul’a 6'1.b15 927, £00 TH Cen RR Bes, 78, 1100 Erie Bis of "85 90 20 he Ohio L &TCo 96 do... 420 evan 8x |) Harlem Railroad, Dee % oading Railroads do... bid 18" ie yeep 10 = do. bs 16 40... *1830 100 Cum Coal Co.b30 25 10 oy & TH RR, 10 do a ar do é 60 do... 2% 190 cole N init, 100 Exile Raiiroad.b10 53% 1000. © RIRR,.«3 92 mu) do. Bim 60 1o..... D860 921% 100 do. io 83% MINING BOARD. 100 sis Cum Coal Co, 243% 100 MeCalloh Gold... 10 100 40,0... ..83 23{ 100 Cogend | il , HON Creek Coal Co, 14 300 Gold It 100 Ward Coalo.b90 2135 600 Gardine (0 Biwaesie Copper. 23% 109 40... B80 CITY TRADB REPORT. , Sarompar, Nov. 28-6 P, M. Flour.—The market was leas active, without material change. Sales of 10,000 a 12,000 bbls. weve made, inclad- ing common to extra State, at $9 63 a $062, with some good lots of extra at $9 68 a $975. Wostern and Southern were held at yestertay’s prices. There was no change in Canadfan, Wheat.—Sales were Tees active but firm. Canadian white sold at $250; 9,000 bushels Chicago at $205; S01 red was at $2 16 a $2 20, and white do. was at al 2 25. Corn, —The market was again firmer, and sales were made at $1 05 a $1 06 for Western mixed, and 5,000 do. do. hand- some, afloat, wan sold at SLOT a $108." Tye was firm, with kales at 26c. a 27c, Pork was dull and unchanged: Cotton was firm with}light sales. rs were awaiting letters, Whiskey.—Sales light, at about yesterday's quotations. ADVERTISEMENTS RENEWED BVERY DAY. BOARDING 9] ee petal NEXT DOOR Ea a Ralerences exchanged. 17 Pomment Single rooms. G68 SePhens aries, Sis rats with without board. bee elber or or fale W"preerred or on. Woropenn lan. Bath room, a8, 863 AND£65 BROADWAY, BETWEEN SEVENTEENTIL and Eighteenth streets, a parior on the first floor, aui\'s and single rooms, with board, in a first class house. newly fur- ished; dinner at 53g P.M. Also # basement to let toa phy- 18) mance Urimctotaee tera 18! coca ersarae houre corner ‘St Broadway and Ninth street, woat side uf Broad- BROADWAY.—FAMILIES OR SINGLE GENTLE. way. 648 BRCADWAY.—TWO SUITS OF FRONT ROOMS, J guitable for families, with full board. Also, two single rooms, with grates. House ‘has all modern improvements. Dinner at 6 o'clock. 2 HUDSON STREET—NEATLY FURNISHED PAR. lors on first and second floors, 4 attache to let, with full or partial ; house desirably located uoar St, John’s park, replete with modern convenience. Relerences exchanged. Also, a single room may be obtained. 14.5 TMHLPTH STREET, NEAR SECOND AVENUE — ‘Booms on ths second floor.—Two single gentlemen, ind gentleman and wife, can procure board. Limited numoer taken. Those only of respectability please call, Location de- sirable, with mi improvements, Rooms reasonable. Near cars and stages, 6G AMITY, STREET.—10 LET, WITH OR WITHOUT partial board, one handsome parlor and bed room, and large pantries, on second floor, wth gas and bath, and all mo- dern upprovments; and one good room on third floor, wall calcu: lated for a gentleman and wile or two single gentlemei Broadway. Stages pass the duor. References requir QQ GREENE, STRERT.—A OENTLEMAN AND WIFE, also two single gentlemen, ean be accommodated wit full or partial board, on very reasonable terms, $3 50.—A BINGLE GENTLEMAN, WILLING TO room with another, can have partinl board aud Pleasant accommodations near the Fulton and Wail st, ferries. Aptly at 65 Henry st, Brooklyn. A MEDICAL GENTLEMAN, OCOUPYING A LARGER hdwse than he has oecasion for, in St. Mark’a p'nce, is de Mirous of receiving two or three genllemen as partial boarders, to promote whose comfort and render their residence agreca: bie, po endeavors will 9¢ wanting on the part of himself and his wite. For address, please Inquire at No. 124 First avenue, between Seventh and Eighth streets. * PARTMEMTS HANDSOMELY FURNISHED, CONSIST ing of three or four rooms, with kitchen attached; also, a parlor and bedroom for a single gentleman, at 2 Amity street, corner of Broadway. FEW GENTLEMEN, WISHING SINGLE ROOMS, OR yentlemen and ladies who want a good boarding place, would do well to call at 202 Sixth avenue, near Fourteenth street. Gas, hot and cold water, baths, dc. Terms moderate. One or two clerks for day board also. LADY RESIDING IN A LARGE AND FINELY FUR- niahed house up town wou'd like to meet with lady to board wiih her. No notice will be taken of answers unless Siating where an interview can be had. Address N. 0. H., Union square Post ofllce. near GENTLEMAN AND HIS WIFE, OR TWO SINGLE xentiemen, can be accommodated with a large (ront room, furnished, on the second floor, with board, at 151 Spring atroet near Worsier. PARTY OF THREE OR FOUR GENTLEMEN wanted, to occupy two furnished rooms, with or witout Partial board, in private family, in Seventh street. ‘Those Wwisbing an interview may address Bro’ LADY, HAVING A FINE HOUSE, WOULD GIVE A furnished room, with board, to any party who would loa, her $100 tor three months, Reference and security given. roca address Wats, Broadway Post office, post paid, for two days, LADY, OR A GENTLEMAN AND LADY, CAN BE accommodated with a pleasant furnished room, with beard for the lady and breakfast for the gentleman {f required in a small private tamity, in Grand atreei, near Broa way, wes’ side, Location very desirable, Address Mr. Jones, Broudwoy "08 GENTLEMAN WISHES TO OBTAIN BOARD IN A respectable family ; in compensation oF part, payment for which ne wil: give lessons on the piano, address A. ., box 150, Herald office. GENTLEMAN AND WIFE, WISHING BOARD, AND all the comforts of a goo rivate family, may apply for (wo daye at 124 Wave Also, two single gentlemen will fird a good home OARD.—TWO VERY DESIRABLE ROOMS, ON TH second and third floors, suitable fer gentlemen and their wives or single gentlemen, can be bad, with board, at No. 1 Carroll p'ace, corner Bleecker and Laurens sireets. "Bath ans gas in the house, zi OARD.—EIGHT GENTLEMEN ATTENDING THE Medical College can have full bosrd, washing, baths, gas Gres, £c., at 133 Tweifth street, near Third avenue. Private house; ierms moderate. Parital or full beard for single or Gen'lemen and their OARD.—SKLECT FAMILIES, SINGLI men, can be accommodated with bandsomel® fury rooms, in suits 07 qingie, in a first clase Uh en house ly located, vear Washington square. Aj ab 222 Too ay , OARD.—TWO OR THREE DAY BOARDERS, AND one or two permanent, can be accommodated with good board, Apply at 60 Walker sireet, near Broadway. Dry goods taken in part i. OARD—A SMALL FAMILY HAVING MORE ROOM than they want will take to board a gentleman and bir twe single gentlemen, Rooms hundsome, House , with gas, bath, &¢. Please inquire at 19) way. ‘Those taken to board will receive ail the com mae 4 SMALL PRIVATE FAMILY ¢ «vo gentlemen and thelr wives, or tour si thhandsemely furnished rooms and fu'l or p. Apply at 263 West Nineteentu sireet. OAKD —A SMALL PRIVATE FAWILY OAN ACCOM mode a xentleman and his wife or two single gentle. dsemely furnished rooms and. boa: rn improvements, such rueulars call atlt9 Went T we: xi nnd Seventh avenues, OARD- AT 22 RAST TWELFTH STREET, CORNER o1 University place.—A choice of rooms, from '$S to $15. Dinner at lo’civek. Fifth avenue stages pass the dogr. OARD. A COMFORTABLE FRONT ROOM TO LET. to 8 genticman and his wife, in a quiet neigh vorhood Hoard furthe indy only. No children of other boarders in the house. Address N, he house $ Kas, baths, y- second street, be Beak) AND ROOMS —PARTINS|SHEKING A TROLY r pore for the Witter, can Gnd superior ve rly application at 618 Houston at. , we to render the inmat ‘and Spanish 8 yok quality, well served and arranged, Rood. ta ie, partial board, per week—at i place. For full particulars apply to BROORLYN.—A__0¢ re are no chil: vosrd, witbin ten minules’ walle street, BOARD IN BROOKLYN —A PLEASANT FRONT ROOM fer a pentienan and wife, or two single Jesirnbie iocation, ave minutes’ walk from the South Diuner at ¢ clock. Apply at 45 Congross #:., South Urookiyn. BROOKL ti OARD IN of Apply at 100 Heury atreel, bv Freel pont ond € Boney full bowed f AND LA retired part of the 2 streel— with VED FO d ee Address 8. a dare stating fall particulars and loca OARDING.—A GENTLEMAN AND HIS WIe three swale gentieuian, ean be accosnimoda'ed th pies *aLt rooms and b me We price, by app ying at 262 Hic Tween the South and Wall aires ferriex. OARDING SUITS OF ROOMS FOR FAMILIES, 1s0 rooms for single gentlemen, can be obtained by ap (ping at 12 Selison place, between Waverley place and ighith street OARDING, $3.—TWO YOUNG MEN CAN HAVE COM. fortable in very respectable location, for $3 per week, breskfart avd tea; dinner on Sundava. a vacsa: ey for one young iady. Apply at 49 Dominick sireet, one door ‘rom Eb udeon, OARDING —A LADY AND GENTLEMAN CAN BE AC commodated with board, in @ good location, by way Yont office. 1 oard for indy only OAKDERS.—OVER 10,000 PERSONS HAVE BEEN directed from this office to suitable boarding places during he paai year, and I am still bappy to wait upon the pubite (in- ‘ tnmediately. Broadway, Tease iow R. b. GOODWIN, IGHTH STREET.—BOARD, WITH FIRST CLASS AC- commodations, may be obtained in the newly furnished house 185 Highth street, opposite the Mercantile Library, and near Broadway. FRENCH BOARD.OA FRENCH TEACHER Orrens ‘the second story for several gentlemen dostrous 0. learn lng to epeak Preneh by practice and lessons, this Iangange Ie only apoken by hls famatly who, aa well as himself, are Po jet separately. Apply at 289 Tenth sitea i AURNISHED ROOMS TO LET—TO A GENTL MAN AND Phe wite, to ly, where ther ‘& small privace fn) ‘The ; ean DE other bons e house ie ‘o piebed, and ev room. ir resp’ Tie aad tree frown oll the annoyanees of thorguemtarce Siok, ‘arom: in Oifly yards of the ghih of Sixth avenue railroad oars No one néed call but thore who can appreciate a comfortable home spd enjoy it.as such. Free use of piano, rary, te, without charge. The highest references required aul given. Xpply is JOUN W. LRCNARD.on the prouuaes, 9¢ Dy pir py ay nD vo8 the pr ‘3M Dominios URNISHED T 70 GRSTLEME PP eer tastes; fl board forthe esac ey ee frat oor of house 76 Greene treet, ons bios aid ia advance, be 8% trom the St. Ni thrcugh the house, Board 0, 10¢ FOURTH AVRNUK.—A LARG# AND FINE dull or partial baer d; also, 8 fow single rooms at tare made, ull oF pai rd a . rate eles; ‘ho house 1s new end has.allthe taoders imprors. men RIVATE FRENCH BOARDING HOUSE—WITH FUR- ished room, to let, with or without board, kept on tne Isuropean style, with all the modern imorovementa of the axa, and is now ready to receive families and single gentlemen, ai ‘55 Houston atreet, near 16 LET—WITH BOARD, FURNISHED OR UNFUR- nished, toa gentieman and wife, or # party of gen‘lemen, Fh yensnas ccs teoen.end Lorre Cys. hg persons; use ix new, with ‘all modern improveaen: and is pleasantly and conveniently located. 3) in the tamily, DI quired. A! at six o'olock. Best of references re- red. Apply at 197th avenue, one door above 1b at, LET—A FURNISHED ROOM, IN A | PRIVATE FA. mily. to one or two single gentlemen, with breakfast avd ton if required; references exchao 25 Lesae tine Fince, West Twenty:nints since, Nuure Mt 28 Mess LET—IN A FRENCH FAMILY, FURNISHED RO)‘3 gentlemen, with or without ii re par wil ths ‘ivilege of learn the i h Is ul 1, wi pr ‘reach langy the te tof the house 5 He st of te eaae pe keer. Ne Ol i ie SINGLE GENTLEMEN CAN BE COMPORTAsLY ‘accommod: jated at 92 Clinton street, Brook; oom reuulted photearecct mire mg ‘WO OR THREE GENTLYMEN CAN BE ACCOMMO. dated with furnished roems rat ‘and partial board, frequired. Apply at 116 Forsythe street, a few doors above emes ANTED—A SUIT OF ROOMS WITH BOARD FOR A family of five persons. Must be ina and above Fourth si. A respectable private family with no other boarders preferred. Must have bath, gas, &c. Any per- ‘son having the above accominodations and willing to make us @comfortable home for & reasonable compensation, inay ad- dress Comfort, Hi wih reference. FINANCIAL. 999,000 72,2048-28 SoMs 70. SUIT APPLET. b Jen owas ot from $5 to. $10,000, monds, watches, jowelry, dry goods, sogars, horses’ wagons, fo. Ace Ail Kinds of personal property” bought for_caahs Private rooms for Indies Business prompt and confidential. By TAYLOR & Chambers street, next door lo Bur- ton’s theatre. Office hours from 9 A. M. ull Be. M. $850.00( TO LOAN ON WATCHES, JEWELRY precious stones, mortga; chooks, confidentially. and merchandise. All communicat Business promptly aitended to. Vash always ready ov in sums of $1 to 610,000. Apply at the loan fo. 10, 304 Broadway, a ~MONEY TO LOAN ON DIAMONi $600,000 -wreer oweury: try soote sapien kot or bought for cash; stocks, notes, &e., Rea Businers confidential and prompt, Hy 1 MPSON & CO, brokers and commission merchants, 102 Nassau street, corver of Ann, room No, 2, second tloor. 9,000 WANTED=ON BOND AND MORTGAGE— : ‘on lots and buildings in Brooklyn. Apply, by note or otherwise, to W. E. THOMPSON, 162 rl street. $6. 000 Wit BE,ADVANCED To s MAUFAOTU- .' ring establishment, or parties who can give gatistactory seourily, and an agency. Address B., box 8.007 ‘ost office. NY AMOUNT OF MONEY TO LOAN, OR PURCTIASRD \ agua prices, oo damonda, alco, plate, rich owelrz val eonal ‘property, and merchandise generally. WOOD, €) Furon street second floor, front Foon 9 As ML, to & P.M. ‘A few valuable oll paintings to be sold JASH LIBERALLY ADVANCPD ON HOUSEHOLD furniture, planoiortes, watches, jewelry, horees, wagons, harness, dry g rdware, and ull other descriptions 0 personal property; or same bought out tor higher cash price. Apply at SOMERS furniture wareroom, 452 Broome street, co! Mercer. Storage to let. CASH LIBERALLY ADV. ‘ED ON PIANO- el hes, diamonds, teas, Hquora, or r description of property, at that old and reaponsibla of , 41 Howard street, corner of Broadway, where the sirict- est confidence and hanor may be rejied. upon. OU! IN & O'NRILE,, FFICE OF TBE FEW YORK AND NEW HAVEN Railroad Company, Nol Hanover street,—Notice to bond holders, Holders of seven per cent bonds of the company are hereby nouifed that io pursuance of an ac: of the generat Assembly of the State of Connucticut, passed at ita last May seasion, 1 urer is autborized and prepared to exchsnge for the outstanding bouds bearing seven per cent interest, and Rot secured by morigage bonds authorized by the before men- tioned act, hearing six per cent interest, and ec by an only morigage.on the oompany’s rasd, ranch nos, a ; said e will be made at this office until further noes. By order of the Directors. WM. BEALENT, Treasurer. New York, Oct. 19, 1855. HOUSES, ROOMS &C., WANTED, HOUSE WANTED.—TAE SUBSCRIBER WISHES TO rent a dwelllog house, in good order, with all the modora improvements, 22 to 25 ieet wide, between F Twen- Heth sureeta, and Third and Seventh avenues. Ron: about $1,000. “He wii buy good furniinre ai a ressenable price. Ap- Ply to G. DAVIS, 50 Beaver street, (A HOUSE AND LOT WANTRD, IN THIS CITY—IN the Kighteenth or S'wenty-ftrat wards preferred; any per- fon having the above to sell, or exchange for valuable unim- proved city property, way meet with a purchaser by aduress- ing or calling in person upon HOJER & GRATTIAM, 95 Duaue st., between the hours ot 12 and 8 o'clock P. M., ior three days, AX UNFURNISHED SQUARE ROOM AND TWO BED- rooms, with other couveniences for a family of two per- sone, wanted, within a moderate dis from ‘the corner of Broadway and Houston street, at a rent not exceeding ten dol- Jars @ month. Address O. G., box 150 Herald office, NFURNISHED APARTM®N'TS,—WANTED, BY A GEN- lemen and lady, two rooms, kitchen and smai) room foe pineal wi _ em nad Crone Totty eension not more than len ut un the Cit; lal. Addreas tat which must be moderate, JM. Herald ollce, Nu “eFm® URNISHED HOUSE OR SUITE OF APARTMENTS want by two gi lemen ; loc! $ New York. Address box 758 Pos! offvo, stating terms, WASTED. BY A MAN AND IIS WIPE, IN A PRI- vate house, one tloor containing four or five rooras, Croton water, waste piper, ac; second floor preferred. Also siabling for twotorses in the reer ar eonvenient. Location near the upper end of the Lowery preferred. Reni must be runderate. Address Tenant, box 1,882, Post office. WARXTED—IN A MODERN BUILT HOUSE, ABOVE tere, Bicgaker street, three rooms, aulurnished, on the xeooud oor. ress, 8 ting terms, A. B. C., Brondvvay Post office. NTED—IN A GENTEEL NEIGHBORHOOD, AND in @ Modern built house, four or five rooms, than the second floor preferred. Must be loc ited ‘and rent not to exceed $250. address TA i MISCELUANEOUS. $100,000 SAX BE MADE IN ONE YEAR PROM . my paten( cooking sioves. The atteation ol dry mev, and others, is in mers sitet, up stairs, wud Age tn cooking stoves. t an inducement to those Good paper, real eatate, de. will be JOUN VAN Wirhing io make money. taken in payment, THE OL1GIN AL RECIPES POR MAKING Growse & Black weil’'s English pickles are oiler ad for sale by & gentieman reiurning to kogland, Address Hlackwell, Heraid otfice. ATEN TON. (COGNAC AND GRAV OL, RSHENCES, RARE OHEM eais and metals, ‘Tho best green and yellow cogaac wis, eseences, Monongahela and Scoich whisker, Jamaicn and Croix rum. gin, cider, peach, cherry, raspberry peseey, madeira and claret wine; flavorings ngs for ali liqdore; oils of lemon, cedronelia, coves, aaasntras, nurgreen, peppermint, -imento, bitter’ almonds, temo, coriauder and rs; vromine, fodiae, hypo ‘ollodium, pee wal a in sheet had wi iamuth, rasagn ANGER, 08 Maiden Lan piu cadmium akbeios, Yienr 4c. Forsale by Dr. L. FE CURE FOR corns, Hy MADAMP BERETARD, No. 167 J Lowery, ens side, bei abe will romovo without < xa be atl wn | antl least pain or Inconvenien e ft home, or at Madune B.'s residen P.M. 1K SASPER, SITUATED ° Jasper know inent gevlograts to b yode, 47 Uxchange plac FATHER RESTORATIVE AND WATER 4 pasis. An od nequaintnoce of everybody, (i Wm Cowan, 18) Fuiton street, has intretuced's , inthe shape vi a pasio blacking, whieh not oply softens end preserves leaiber, bus perfectly excl ta! thing for carr ieather exposed PROOF ond rangea and retail, BGARS.—A VERY LARGE LOT OF [IMPORTED HA- © vans, German, and domestic segars, for aie at mush ve- ow the market price. (o pay advances, Operas at$3. Ger man segars as low as $4 ia ). CHEEKS, ve No. 1 Broadway, up #ihirs. 19, MINERAL WATER MANUFACTURERS AND KOT ra—JI am pow prepared to furnish Alexander's patent cork fastener, which o enufcturer and bottler, is ihe ‘ing made wo tem vorb labor apd time,” Specluens can be meen at W. Ge soda water apparatus manuiactory, 58 Fulwo ‘ork, whore every | a their utwity, fhe.sand all orders: ‘orwes ted ot imer, sole magumetaer, ew London, Conn., will be promptly a+ ESTRIS BLOOMS —LADIkS, DO You WISH TO have @ skin like white sain, a check likes peach, aad beautiful hands! Use the Vestris blooms, Ladies, these’ cos meticn are not coarse piebian era ther ; they are ¢ bent Nolginened by using (he woal youth booms. Por dork ladies, No. 1; fair, No. 2; blonde, No. 3. bold only a 30% Broadway ‘OAL.—BEST QUALITY OF RED AND WHITE ASH coal, well rereened and in good order, delivers! si 35 60 RFs 0g ATglee_eunrantond, under lveletbare ‘of tha com, M. B. HAYS, corner of Ninth aveane and Fifteouth street, RW SCHUYLKILL COAL YARD, FOOT OF FOUR. teenth sireet, East river, and foot of Warren sirset, North river.—The undesaignet ‘bog leave to advise the van thai, having made exiennivg arrangemouis for 8 ccveiant re ceipt of the best of Sobuy kill white apd red ash onal. expres iy prepared fur family parposes, th led to 501) bale rol—the qualliy a whiob, Ii ns full wetett. thoy will guarantor at the following low prices:—White ws. farnaen, grate ard stove siren, Fs per tou; red ash do. do. ate per ton; Inege chestnut or mut coal. at $4 per ‘on of 2.00) the , de Mvered. AD we nek of the pablic isto giransa ira! ond ft watiataotory, we coniidonty rely ty9n s share of ile p «lie pa- | tronage, O'NSLL & NeGes, Agents,