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~ T?ETOAYM0BNINO, NOVEMBER 13, 18C0. SKETCHES OP TRAVEL. BY O. W. W. LETTE? NUMBEn XIX. llAMDURG, GERBIAHT, I860. The BUrr<"g ovonto of tho p**t few month? add much interest to the ?rent Prussian Metropolis. I spont two days in Berlin, aud regretted tho time nt my command would not allow mo a week in thia in torcutiiig city. Tho Prussians ero an ontorprisiug nation. Whatever they undertake must bo exe cuted on a grand eenie, aud thoroughly. I havo Boon no whoro in my travols n moro striking monument than that erected to tho memory of FiiEDEnio THE GnnAT. It ?B truo, thoy havo been alow in offering thin tributo to ono to whom thoy oro HO much indebted for thoir grcatnosa. FnEDEmc was to Prussia wba WASH INGTON was to tho Uni tod States. Ho waB both a hero and a statesman, and ?B regarded as tho Father of his Kingdom. Tho monumont in all ita proportions ?B splondid. The horso on which tho King majestically sits is a noblo looking ani mal, sovoutoon feet in height. Tho ontiro monu mont is somo fifty foot high. The bronze pedestal is of hugo uimonsionB, and is raised on blocks of beautifully polished granite. Tho ontiro monu ment consists of at loast forty fignroB, and, as a work of art, it has never boon excelled in Europe. I drovo through a beautiful grove of trees that would do credit to an American forest, to tho Pal ace of Chorlottonhof, situated a few miles from Berlin. The buildings, although fino, will not com paro with the dazzling palaces of the city. The sight of the palace is good-standing in a park boantifnlly ornamented with treoB-the growth of centuries; the walks are lined with orango and choico shrubs; but there is a stillness and want of life in tho old palace, and I felt as if moving among scenes of days long passed away, whilo I really rtood in the homo of living mon arch?. The marble Btatnos scattered through the park have a d_ngy appearance; they look like noglcctod monuments in a deserted churchyard. Thomo8t interesting spot in theso grounds was the mausoleum in which the late King FREDERIC III. and his queen lie interred. Except that of NAPOLEON'S in I'aris, theso tombs are tho finest I havo seen on th 3 Continent. The lay figures aro exquisitely cut in puro white marble; the delicate blue fight admitted from the domo of stained glass adds greatly to tho beauty of the monu monts. Tho Queon was quito young when NAPO LEON, in 1806, antena as conquoror of norlin. She was a clover and spirited woman, and NAPOLEON Buffered in tho estimation of tho Prussians in con soquenco of his treatment of thoir favorite Queen. Bho died at tho early age of thirty-five, whilo FRED EBIG lived to the ago of Bovonty-two. No travel ler should leavo Berlin without visiting these mag jiiUoent monuments. In one of the public squares aro exhibited a largo number of cannon captured recently from the Austrian?. The Boyal Botanical Gardens in Berlin are not as extensive as those in Paris, but the exotics, which grow in mammoth glass houses, interested me vory much. The environs of Berlin, with thoir handaomo private dwellings and magni ficent public parks and pleasure ground?, filled with beautiful trees anti flowering shrubs, uur pafiB anything I have yet seen in Germany. Villas and aummer-houscs for refreshments are scattered through theso parks. Under theso grand old trees rioh and poor assemble to listen to the music or minglo in tho dance. Berlin waa the birthplace of the most distinguished naturalist the world ovey produced-Baron VON HUMBOLDT. He waa a great favorito with tho sovereigns and peoplo of Germany ; and his name ?B.universally honored and respected for his vast acquirements, attained by ex tensive travels, research and study, and his -mind was clear and active oven at tho advanced age of eighty-four. No man of his day possessed such general information or had seen so much of the habitable globe. His great mind grappled with and comprehended noarly every branch of human knowledge Ho waa eminontly a working man ; he know the value of time, and that knowlodge was only to bo acquired by toil, and it is said that ho seldom slept moro than four hours put of twenty four. When this ripo scholar had reaohed the ago of thrce-acore-ond-ten-full of glory and renown it scorns he might well have rested from his labors; but not so; he was as diligent in scientific re search at eighty as at any former period of his fife Would that tho young men of our country, whoso ambition it is to rotiro from business at forty-to live a life of ease and idleness-would study the life and imitate the bright example of the great ALEXANDER HUMBOLDT. I left Berlin early in the morning. A few hours by the "lightning express" and I find myself in tho quaint and to me deeply interesting old town of Hamburg. In the new town are splendid streets, with magnificent buildings and royal palaces, while the old is composed of narrow streets and alleys, filled with a population of tho poor. I explored ono of theae alleys, whoro I found the people even moro degraded than in the "Five Pointa " of Now York. I proposed to my guide to accompany mo. Ho declined upon tho plea that gentlemen did not visit such places. Just imagine a street six feet wide, with houses on each side from four to six. stories high, to say nothing ol the cellars beneath, all of which aro ocenpiod, each room frequently accommodating two or more families. Theso narrow strcots are several hmTdred y ard H in length, and what adds to tho filthinoss and discomfort of tho buildings, is that thoro is but ono ingress or ogress. The dirty, half-clad wo men stared at me, tho smut and groase dripping from thoir black faces. Tho squalid children hold ont thoir hands, begging for coppers. I stopped te tako n. peop into alloy No. 2, when my guide as uiircd mo tho small-pox and 'cholera woro raging thore. I had scon enongb of poverty and wretch edness, and had no desire to extend my visil among that class of oitizons. I inquired of a phy eioian in referonco to tho health of these dirty alloys, and ho informed mo that tho mortality win not greater boro than in tho host portions o; Hamburg. I was surprised to find in one of tin . richest cities on tho continent so much poverty and degradation. Tho children who aro born ant rearod in these dismal courts, or tho Fivo Points Now York, aro no more affected by tho polluted aii thoy broatho than aro tho rats whioh infest those haunts of filth ; but as immortal boings thoy an corrupted by tho vicious atmosphere that sur rounds them. Hamburg is one of tho oldest of tho Free Cities of Gormany; it invites the rich commorco of the world to onlor its magnificent harbor almost free of duty. Immcnso cargoes of merchandise arc discharged from VOSBOIS that ho in the middle ol tho stream into small barges; thoso aro rowed te the warohousos, at less oxponso than if tho good' wero landed at tho docks from the ships. I drove along tho banks of tho river looking at tho mile? of shipping,-and waa surprised to seo no docks; bat when I witnessed the facility with which the groat carg?os wero transferred, by means of light ers, to tho storehouses, tho absence of docks was explained. Hore yon find ships from nearly every nation. Tho star splanglod banner, as it waved proudly ovor tho fino American ships, sont an oloc tric shock through my veins-for tho first timo in my wanderings I folt homesick. To a citizen of tho United States Micro is something grand in tho Stars and Stripes. It is a flag that commands tho rospoct of all nations. Tho gigantic war tlirough which wo havo just passed haH proved to tho world that tho States, when united, form an irresistible power, and nro not to bo trifled with, cither on land or sea. May our great Republic for nil timo to conic cultivate peace, friendship and amity. O. W. W. The Heit Across the Continent. Tlic Great Pacific Railroad-An Interesting - History.' A correspondent ol'tho Chicago Republican, who accompanied the recent excursion party over tho Union Pacific Railroad to tho ono hundredth parallel of longitude, has written a full account of tho road, which is of such interest that wo copy the material parts. It should bo premised that another Pacific Railroad is in rapid progress duo west from Kansas City, two bundrod miles south of tho Plato Valloy route, described below. This lower route ?B the one in which St. Louis has the moat interest, as it is an extension of the Pacific Railroad of Missouri. Tho directora of each of these roads aro striving vigorously to reach the mountains with thoir tracks boforo tho other. Tho Republican's correspondent says : ROUTE OF THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD. Tho Union Pacific Railroad, commencing at Omaha, follows tho valloy of tho Platte river for live hundred and fifty miles, or to tho baso of tho Rocky Mountains. Omaha, upon the Missouri river, is nino hundred and sixty-oigbt (barometer) foot abovo the level of the sea. One mouth of the Platte is fifteen milos below Omaha, and to roach the Platte valley, tho road makes a detour nine miles southwest, and then follows tho natural val ley formed by this river. Partaking of the natnro or a prairie, tho valloy, as it extended westward, has boon for many years considered an arid plain. It covers an area of about fivo thousand squaro milos, and varies in width from thrco to twonty miles. North of tho valloy tho country is a rolling ?irairie, gradually decreasing in fertility as it ex onda northwoBterly to tho British provinces, where the intenso rigor and longth of the winter, and the Bandy soil, have almost ontirely destroyed all vegetablolifo. Tho railroad follows tho north bank of tho Platte for three hundred miles, and then crosacs tho North Fork and koopa up the no?th sido of the South Fork to its headwaters at tho foot of tho Rocky Mountains. There aro but five bridgos of any s'izo uutil the Rooky Mountains oro reached. Tho first is ovor tho Elkhorn, ono hundred miles eaat of Omaha, and is a truss bridgo of tho most approved pattern, built upon stone piers, that will last for half a dozen centuries. Similar bridges have boon built over Shell crock, the Lonp Fork, tho Wood Rivor ?d tho North Fork. No streams of any sizo flow into the Platte from the south side, the natural tendoncy of all streams of this valloy being to run southward. No attempt has ever been made to navigate the Platte, or to improve it for navigation. It is a rapid stream, spread over a very largo surface of ground, vory shallow, and yet so full of quicksands aa to render it uni ordablo. Ita banka aro continually changing from sido to sido, owing to the washing of tho sand as in the Missouri. Unliko tho latter, howover, it Devor has freshets, and never inundates its banks. Ita rise and fall is limited to six inches. The water is never clear, but of a muddy, randy character, caused by tho washing of ita banks. For practical illustration it may bo said that tho Platte, rising in tho West, runs west to ita month, in tho Missouri river. Ita tributarios rise in the north ? northwest, and, running southeast empty into the Platte. Ita southern tributaries. Skull and Salt creeks, havo clear water and rocky bot tom? It wiU Lo oom that natnro has laid oui tho wholo Platte valloy into littlo valleys bisected with rivers and crooke at varions intervals, and fined the rivor banks with the richest bottoms or valleys, covered with an alluvial eoil, and varying in width from one to six milos. Timber of various kinds is found upon all the small streams. The cotton-wood, however, prevails to the greatest ex tent. Thcro is no doubt, wero it not for the an nual burning of tho prairies and tho grasa upon the bottoms of vulloys, the whole Platte valley would bo covered with timber, as it ia whero tho fire could not reach that we now find tho oak, locust, cedar and cottonwood, and it haa been fully demonstrated in the various Western States that where the fire baa been kept off a particular tract for three years a strong growth of timber starts out, and in ten or twelve it is large enough for posts, rails or general building purposes. POPULATION OF NEBRASKA. Over two-thirds of the population of Nebraska lies south of the Platte valley, and the largest por tion along the Missouri river; out of fifty members of the territorial legislature, over thirty nro elected south of the Platte, The line of travel opened by the emigrants start ing out from Omaha to oroas tho Plains to tho gold mines of Colorado, the Mormon harems of Utah, and to the Pacific coast, havo induced many farm ers or ranchmon to settle along the wagon trail of tho overland route. These found a ready market for their corn and cattle in the emigrants, and, later, in tho mining regions of Colorado, which raised nothing to feed themselves. The Indians and the wolves havo for many years reigned su preme on tho route, and it waa neceasary for emi grants to travol in large bodies for self-protection, and for ranchmen to fortify themselves and build stockades for their cattle. Those disadvantages but few were willing to meet, and consequently wo now find settlers so rare upon these millions of fortilo acres. LAND GRANTS. The land granta of tho Pacifie road aro tho fin est ever given to a railroad. One-half the land for twonty milos upon both aides, with the right to locate at any point the amount they do not get on tho last end, when tho titlo ?B not now in tho gov ernment. This will make thom tho ownors of the entire valley after thoy got out beyond the surveyed and located lands which, probably, do not extend ovor one hundred miles, for (fil lands on the then sur veyed hne aro withdrawn from tho market until they got what they desire. So far, thoy havo no lands takon up oxcopt at . whatever stations they needed for immediate UBO, and in locating these at random thoy aro safo, for they will get tho titlo whonever they desire it, and tho cities, towns, villages and fari.is are theirs to locato, to sell, and to build up. Durant can literal ly say, as he rides out with his iron horso into the I howling wilderness and s tar HOB tho Indian from his lair, "I am monarch of all I survoy; my rights thoro are none to dispute." TIMBER FOR RAILWAY {INSTRUCTION. Whon Dr. Durant announced, ono year ago, that ! ho wanted one million of cross ties for immediate 1 uso, and three million? in two years, overybo;ly ? laughed at tho idea. "Thoy must bo had," ho rc . plied. "I will have thom." Evory source was ap ?iii ed to. Soon one party agreed to furnish a largo ot, and another a lot, but thoy were bringing in - cottonwood, a species of timber like nnto a ? pumpkin or a cuonmbor, whioh looked well enough, but had a reputation for not being reliable over night; but the resources of man aro as ond ' less as his desires aro boundless. "Bring on your i cottonwood," said Durant, and up tho Missouri, r and down tho Missouri, out of a thousand ravines and gulches rang the sound of tho invador'a axo, 1 and soon cunio a perfect torrent of tics; tics of oak, ' of cedar, and of cottonwood. 1 THE "BUBNETIZ1NO PROCESS." , To moko the latter availablo, an iron boiler a . hundred foot long and fivo foot in diameter was brought into requisition. It was filled with tien, 1 and the aportaros boing closed, a steam engine ) exhausted tbo air, which emptied tho pores of the . wood, whon a solution of zinc was injected, whioh, Sormeating tho fibres, hardens tho wood, nnd in rying gives it well-nigh a motalie appoaranco and weight, wliich guaranties its durability for about i twolvo years. I BIGHT HUNDRED AND FIPT? THOUSAND TIES AND TELEGRAPH POLES . already havo boon laid by tho company; 150,000 moro must go down ore the work conscs for the ' winter-2500 to tho milo, and oxtra for aldinga. For i fuol cottonwood was bought for from eight to twolvo dollars por cord at Omaha; and consider able waa bought and dolivered on tho lino of tho 1 road for a dis (anco of ono.hundred and soronty-flvo miles, at prices varying from fivo to len dollars por cord. Boyond that point no wood or tics could bo had until a point waa reached distant two hundred and twouty-flve miles, whoro wood ?B again found on tho Platte and south of it, und bautcd to tbo track for $8 por cord for assorted kinds, and croBB tios lor from $1 to $1.G0. Two hundred and fifty miles from Omaha, and south of tho Platto. ?B found a bolt of rod cedar, about thirty milos wido and twonty-flvo miloB long. From this tho com pany havo cut ono hundred th ou ?und cedar cross ties and tolograph poloB-enough for aovoral hun drod milos, ana probably enough to roach the Rocky Mountains. This cedar grows in tho canons, whore it is moat probable thal tho wild fowl havo dropped tho sood, anil, protected from Uro and tho cold, bleak, piercing winda, thoy hnvo boon nursed into life, and onco accuriug a foothold, BOOH roar ed thoir hoads to bid defiance to nil the? elements combined, and now thoy aro found ready to make glad the hearts of the Pacific railway pioneer*. TUE WATJCn QUESTION. Water ia eaoily reached nil along the road by digging from eight lo twenty feet. Tho coin puny httve constructed water Blatioua at convenient dis tances, and with stution homes of a si/.o and char actor not excelled by any of our Ka tera roads. The water is pumpod up at preseut by hand, but tho company will BOOH introdttoo windmills for that purpoao, tho perpetual winda that go howling over tho Plains f-mialling all tho nccoaBary power. 11AII.WAY SHOPS AND S-BUCI lilli?!. The company havo built ahops at Omaha for the construction and repairs of their cara and engines, that bid fair to rival, iu ofllcioiioy and build, thone of any of our Eastorn roads. Thoy aro all of brick, and are all so laid nut as to onablo tho company to extend thom indefinitely. Tho company aro now running twonty-ono locomotivos, and next Bummer will iucrcaso it to ono .hundred. Thoy havo now only thrco hnndrod cars, but in loss than a year will havo uso for two thousand. By March next thoy will bo ablo to turn out from their own shops at Omaha one ear a day, and probably soon double and oven treble that number. THE DIVISIONS. Tho road wfil bo dividod into working divisions of about ono hnndrod and fifty milos I-.CI, and al though the samo ears will run from lae Atlantic to tho Pacific without any chango?? thoir freight, the engine? will only run ovor on-- division. From Omaha to tho mountains then* is to bo no grade over thirty foot to the mile, a_u tho trains made up there for tho wost go through iust the samo. On thoir rotura tho all-down grado will onablo them to bring back any quantity of coal or stono for ballasting tho road. Tho first working division terminates at Grand Island, one hundred and sixty-five miles from Omaha. Hero tho company havo nearly completed a brick round-honso for their engines, and shop for repairs. Tho noxt relay or ona of division will bo near Cottonwood, whore similar brick buildings will be erected. Tho brick are mado at Omaha, although there ?B plonty of the finest brick-clay all along tho road, upon tho bluffs or terracos at tho edge of tho prairie bottom J. THE TIUCK. The loam and sand make an excellent bank for tho trrck, and tho surface, forming a kind of paato, docs not easily turn into dust, and soon covers over with crass; thuB, in a great measure, kooping down tho dust which is mich a terrible plaguo to all travellers. It ?B the intention of the company to ballast tho entire longth of the road with finoly brokon stone, similar to tho Pennsylvania Contrai Railroad. On their reaching tho Rocky Moun tains they will Bond return loads of stono ou all thoir construction trains. AN A1H LIKE. No road over yet built runs on so straight a line as this. East of Columbus there is an air lino of eighty miles, without tho slightest deflection ; while in the last two hnndrod aud fifty miles of track there is probably not twenty curvos in the entire distance, not an embankment over twelve foot high, and not a out ovor that dopth, with only a bridge in a half day's rido. This road has every advantage that will enable it to make the fastest time of any railro-d in the world. Hion SPEED. On its return tho lato excursion train was com posed of nino cars, and. to show tho guests what could bo done, it ran at the rate of a milo a minuto, or sixty miles per hour, for some timo. Five hnn drod and fifty miles from Omaha to the mountains can be ron in fourteen hours with perfoot safety, and allow for passengers to stop and get meals and the engines to supply themselves with wood and water. From Now York to Chicago, by way of Pittabnrg, is 911 miles-time 80 hours; from Chi cago to Omaha, by way of Northwestern, is 497 more, and time 22 boors; making 1958 miles in 75 hours, or thrco days from Now York to Denver City. One week to go from Wau street, spend a day in a Colorado gold mino, and return to tho Broker's Board. 1'IIOSEOUTION OF THB WOBK. But turning baok to the end of tho track reach ing away out over the Plains, we find grading par tics at work for a distance of a hundred miles be yond tho end of the rails, seventy-five miles are ready for the ties, except somo small gaps, that will oe filled np in ample time, There ia a bridge to bo built over the north fork of the Platto, but that is already partly done, and will canse no de lay. The track has been laid this Bummer at tho av erage rate of one mile and six-tenths nor day for every working day in the month, and making no allowance for rainy days or want of material. Three hundred miles of rails, chairs, Ac., havo been tak en up the Missouri River this summer and landed at Omaha. More is on the way. but tho freezing np of the springs that supply the Missouri River at its hoad will leave so little water in the channel as to stop navigation in ten days moro. Beforo the work is stopped this month they oxpect to havo thrco hundred and twenty-five miles in running order. By January iBt the Chicago and North western will have completed their road to Council Bluffs, when all the futuro material of the Union Paoific will pass through Chicago on the way to Omaha. Tho item of fro i gh te up tho narrow and tortuous channel of the Missouri has boon an enormous one. To get engines and cora up from St. Josoph (from whio . point nearly all thofroight waa talton) a boat'i '. I ' constructed on purpose, and so built *..'-. ? '? v thrco feet of water. It cost to trana > j ? 'rom tho shops in the East, whore they w J . *. t.from $1701) to $2200 each, and cars from $250 b o ?1000 each. It is evident that all rail communication next Bummer wUl re duce tho item of freights from thirty to forty per cent. Whilo no road has over beon so cheaply graded, none havo ever been built under so many disadvantages and oxponsos, and the whole world may well look on with wonder at the almost magic build of two hundred and eighty-six milos, now in running order. Tho wo?dor is increased as yon look upon the map and see it built afar off from any other railroad, and only tho Missouri River to furnish a channel for supplies. THE 8UBVEY8. For tho last six months the railroad company has had foin* corpa of engineers feeling around for a pan? through the Rooky Mountains. No route has yet boon adopted. Colonel S. Seymour, con sulting ouginoor of tho compmy, and Oonoral Dodgo, ohiof-ongineer, have spout sovcral weeks in tho mountains, personally inspecting tho various posses. They have just ro turned, and will soon be ablo to rccommond a route. It is most likely that thoy will cross a hundred miles north ol' Donver City, whoro they can got along without tunnelling. Five ?oparato routes havo boon surveyod: Ber thoud- Pass, wost of Denver; Boldor Pass, twonty miles north of DenvorjCacho aPondro Pass, fifty flvo milos north of Donver; Crow Creek Pass, oevonty-fivo miles north of Denver, and Lodgo Polo Crook Pass, ono hundred milos north of Don ver. Tho last thrco como out at the wost sido upon Laramio 1'lainu, and tho two first upon tho Middle Park. Lodgo Polo Crook would bo tho shortest, but has a tunnel of a milo and a half in longth. Crow Creek ?B the longoat, but has no lunnol. BBorthoud'a Pass has a tunnel of about three and aiialf milos in longth, and Boldor Pass ono from four and a half to nvo milos long. Tho groat objoct now is ? to got tho road built, and t?o Crow Crook routo having no tunnel, will probably be adoptad, and a branch run down to Denver City. THE STAOE ROUTEB. llolladay's overland mail now starts at Fort Kearny, ono hundred and sovonty-five miles from Omaha, passongors and maila going that distance on the railroad. From Kearny tho stages keep on tho south sido of tho Platto until thoy roach Donver City. A pontoon bridge has boon sent up the road and will bo thrown over tho rivor at Cottonwood, and tho connection with tho road at Fort Kearny ho abandoned on Novombor 5, thus saving eighty milos moro of staging, and leaving only forty-eight hours of stages from tho road to Denvor City. When tho road stops for tho winter it will crob&bly havo reached Julo.burg, and tho transfer bo mado at that point, loaviug about thirty-six hours of Btagcs for tho noxt three months. THE aOVERNSEENT CO-CUISSIONX-lfl. Tho Pacific railway.ia especially favorod among American railway ontorprisos, bocausq of Iho ox istonco -of natural obbtaolos and bulk of under taking that would rest fatally on any embarking of . private capital in. the,work.. Jt could .not bp built without Oovornmontaid. Tho Government has ap pointed its CommieBionora to pnpervleo and ox \ amino every milo of track boforo it is accopted; and this was faithfully dono by tbo Commiasioners proaont on tho late occasion. Their functions aro not an ornamental sinecure, as tho history of their connection with tho road abundantly shows; rail road mou nil agroo that it ia woll built. A bit of h?Btorv portaining to tbo Eastern Division of tho Union" Pacific and Kaunas route well illustrates this. It was most scrupulously examined some months ngo, and lo tho loss of contractors, but out of tho controversy nu to points of difforenco of opinion grow tho mont importent summoning In testimony ever gathered from railroad experts. THE BUSINESS ASPECT. It is very diflioult to estimate the business of tho Pacific road. Colorado, Utah and Montana have a population ol'probably a quarter of a million. In 18(i4 it was estimated upon very carefully prepared data that forty million? of pounds of froiglitn wore carried over the Plains in wagons. In 18G5 it in creased to two hundred millions of pounds, anil employed 9,000 wagons, 50,000 cattlo, 1(1,000 horses and mules, and ten thousand men as drivers, guarda, ko., making tho COBI. for freights alone laut yoar nearly enough to pay $50,000 per milo for tho construction of the road. Thousands of pasBen gers woro carried at ?175 per head from tno Mis souri river to Colorado, and ?350 lo Salt Lako City. Now the Overland Ktago Company charge $125 from Omaha to Donvor, $250 to Salt Lako City, and about $400 through to California. If tho Pacific Railroad charges one-half tho presont rates thoy will doublo and quadruplo tbo freight and pnsson ?or business, and multo tho road profitable the rat yoar-thia Independent of tho buBinoas from tho Atlantic to tho Pacific, that will only commence whon tbo road shall bavo been completed from ocoon to ocean, and the tido of the world's com merce ebbs and flows through Chicago. A Treacherous and Deadly Foe! CATARRH ! PAIN AND NOISKS IN TUB HEAD. Dr. Norton's New Kemedy FOR CATARRH, AND MODE OF TREATMENT IS THE ACME OF PERFECTION. IT BREAKS UP THIS TERRIBLE DISEASE AT ITS Fountain Hoad, and remove? at onoo all tbo wrotched Hymptoms of this loatliRomc malml v, such on Pain in tho Temples, Offonsivo Dischargca, Obstruction of the Breath ing Tubes, RopulHlvc Breath, Snapping Boanda in tho Ears, AbsenMlindodnoi?, Mental Depression, Dimness oi Vlnion, Boro Throat, Hacking Couch; restores the senao of Taste and 8mell, and permanently cures the disease In all its types, forms and stage?, with absoluto certainty. This remedy and mode of treatment. Uko tho disease. Is peculiar. In consists of tho inhalation of harmless li quids from tho palm of the hand. Tho immediate relief it affords is alono worth ten timos the cost of tlic reme dies. Norton's New Pamphlet on Catarrh is out. Informa tion novor before published. Call at our nearest Agency, or Bond a stamp for it Prepared by GEBRIT NORTON, No. 11 AnD-strcct, New York. Drs. RAOUL & LYNAH, CITY APOTHECAIUE8, November 1 thstnCiuo Agent for Charleston. ACCOUNT BOOK MAMFACTOR?. ACCOUNT BOOKS, SUCH AB REC0RD8 FOR PUBLIC OFFICES, Lodger?, Journals, Cash Books, Day Books, Ac., con stantly ou hand, and modo to order, and with any de scription of Ruling. None but tho best workmen cm ployed, and the best materials used. A practical experience of twenty years in tho above line, and with facilities unsurpassed, ennblo mo to war rant satisfaction. BOOK BINDING AND JOB PRINTING In aB ita branches, with new type, new presses, and advantages not excelled in this city. Lawyer's Blanks, Tides, Bonds, Mortgagee, Ac, kc, on hand and printed to ord er. tu thftlyr December 14 MADAME HUXOBN HAS NOW OPENED HER BUSINESS OF FORTUNE TELLING AT No. O CLIFFORD STREET. Hours from 8 in the morning till 9 at night. IToveml-er 10_e? CHEROKEE C rae onxAT INDIAN MEDICINE, Cares all dl&oascs eauaod by 6olf-abwe, viz :- Spertnntor rhea. Seminal - WtaknetH, Night . Emitsions, Lots of Memory, Universal Laut tuds, Pains In the Back, Dim .nets of Vision, Prematuro j Old Age, Weat Nerves, D_H \oult Breathing, Pole Commit ' nanos, Insanity, Consump tion, and all diseases that foi low as a soq uenoo of youthful indiscretions. The Cherokee Cure will restore health and visor, atop tb? ?missions, and effect a permanent caro afUir all other medicines have faifod. Thirty-two paio pamphlot sent In a sealod envelope, free to any address. Prloo $2 nor bottle, or three boltl?6 for $5. Bold tv all druKglsts ; or will be, aent by express to any portion of tho world, on receipt of prlco, by the solo proprietor, Dr. W. R. MAWE!, 37 Walker St., N. Y. Cherokee Remedy, Cures all Urinary Com plaints, vi* OraveL h\flam motion of ths Bladder and ? Kidney?, Retention of Urina, Stricturet cf the Urethra, Dronttoal Stcell tno', Brink Butt Deposit*, and all disease* that require a diuretic, and whon used In conjunction with the CHEROKEE INJECTIOH, docs nttfall to core Gonorrhsa, OUet and all Mu cout Ducharges In Male or Female, curing resent cane* in from on* to three dayl, and U cinoelally recommended In those caaes of Pluor Albus or WhiUt In Fesnaltt. The two medicine* used in conjunction will not foil to remove this dleagrccnhlo complaint, and In those ease* wheroothor medicine* havo boon tiaod without euoceas. Vila, Remedy, Ono Bottlo, $2, Three Bottle?, |?. ? ? InjeoUon, M " W*\ " ** *A Tho Cherokee "Cure," "Remedy," and "Injec tion" are to bo found In all well reftnlaUd dru? stores, and aro recommended by phyelclans and druggists all over tho world, for their Intrinelo worth MM merit Some unprincipled dealers, however, try to docelve their euhtomora, by Belling cheap and worthleas compounds,-In order to make money In plaee of these. B* rM deceived. It tho drug gist* will not buy thom for y , write to na, aud wo will send them to you by exnrece, sconrelv packod .and freo from observation. Wo treat all dueesos to which tho human system is solject, and will be pleased to roceii'o (hil and explicit atntemont* from thos.5 who have failed to receive relief heretofore, Ladled or gentlemen- ?an nddrea? us In perfer.t con fidtnes. WA dcalr* to. send our thirty-two page ' pamphlet tua toerory ?ady and pcntlemsn In the . land. Addree* all letter? for pamphlets, modWne* or advice, to tho aolo proprietor, Q . Dt. W. B. MBBWOT, y/'WiJkor ?t:. If. Ti . May 24 Uutnlyr GEO. LITTLE & CO'S FASHIONABLE CLOTHING STORE, No. 213 KING STREET, UNJ-D-S-S. VICTORIA HOTEL. WE OFFER TO THE dTIZEMS OF CHARLESTON AND THE PUBUCI OENERAI.Y A NEW AND FHE-B aBHortmcnt of CLOTHING, received by the L-wt urrivali? from our inunuf_i.t..riii?,? ..Htablii.hii.uiit at New Vm k, euch ?IT: Superfino, and medium quality of BLUE. BLACK AND COLORED MIXED CABS-HEBE BU81NEH8 s.n RK AND <;OATS SUPEBF1NE BLACK DRESS FBOCK COATS SDI'EBFINE lll.ACK AND COLOBED VELVET VESTS SUI'KRFINE BLACK AND COI?ORED OABK1MBBE PANTS HUTEEFINE BLACK AND COLOBED OVEBCOATB AND SACKS. ALSO, PANTS AND VESTS OF ALL QUALITIES, AND PKICES TO. SUIT CTSTOMEUS. ALSO, A lar?o -Mortmcnl of MRDIUM AND LOW-rBICED CLOTHING, miitabjc roi- jilsnlation harulii ami Laborei-, euch as HACKS, COATS, MONKEV JACKETS, PANTS AND SHIRTS, aB lo??--iiricod and no ml-taki*. Call ned eec or Tour-elvoi?, at No. 313 KING-STBEET, under Victoria Hotel. GEO. LITTLE & CO. November C tul_.2mot) CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES. YATES &D BRO, No. 449 KING-STREET, FOUR DOORS -CSTO-ejaT-l-C O-F 0_A_I__e-COXJ3ST? TZEEP CONSTANTLY IN 8T0BE A FULL AND WELL SELECTED STOCK OF' OHOIC--: -P-A-IS-CI-LY C3-_-lOC__5_L=tI__:S, .ALES, ^VI-STES, LIQUORS, ?toC, WHICH THEY'ABE SELLING AT REASONABLE PRICES. OOOD9 PUB0HA8ED FROM D8 WILT? BE DELIVERED TO ALL TARTS OF THE CITY, RAILROAD DEPOT8, Ac, WITHOUT ADDITIONAL EXPEN8E. LIBERAL INDUCEMENT- OFFERED TO THE TRADE, AT THE SIGN OF THE "BIO PITCHEB." November 8 thstu __mos -Mi?MaWW-B--M?-MW-Da-?^--l^-M-M-BK-MJB-J--i FASHIONABLE BOOT AND SHOE STORE. JOHH WALLACH, asro- seo __iisrc3- ST., OPP. _3____-i_r:_\i-_i_\r. BOOTS, HOE .TRUNKS, VALISES, ETC., AT RETAIL. TTAVING RECENTLY RETURNED FROM THE NORTH, WITH A NEW. LARGE AND VARIED STOCK Ot BOOTS, SHOES, TRUNKS, VALISES, &c, I am prepared to favor all who may pay mo a visit with Goods as cheap as the cheapest There will always ha found oil hand, a large assortment of Ladies and Gentlemen's CUSTOM MADE BOOTS AND SHOES. Also, LADIES', MISSES' and CHILDREN'S BOOTS, SHOES AND GAITEBS always on baud. 1 would also call special attention to my asaortment of TRAVELLING TRUNKS AND VALISES, Being fully aBsured that my Stock cannot be enrpaeeed by any dealer in this or any city Sontb. -EPL-A-ISTT-A-TIOlSr SHOES -A.-NTID BOOTS, FOR MEN, WOMEN AND ('Ilii.imKS. No means or expense have been spared to vnako my present Stock one of the most attractive; and, as all the goods nave been selected by myself, in person, I can warrant satisfaction to all who mai give me a call. ?srDO NOT FORGET THE NUMBER."?ft No. 260 KING STREET, OPPOSITE BEAUFAIN. Mar Messrs. G. B. GIBSON and O. A. SPEI88EGGER would be happy to see their frionas at tho above establishment. tntbs 2mos October 2 ESTABLISHED 1825. THOMAS J. FUCK & SONS, IMPORTERS & DEALERS IN BRANDIES, ,._, ?DIALS, ALE, -,?,, No. 62 SOUTH STREET, BALTIMORE, _MI_D.. A IaAROI- STOCK OF THE! FINEST GRADES OF OLD M0N?NGAHELA, RYE AND BOURBON WHISKEY OON8TANT1.Y ON HAND AND AT LOWEST PRICES. KoTcmbor 8 thstu 3niou NATIONAL MARINE AND FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF CAPITAL.?500,000 RISK? TAKEN, MARINE AND FIRE, ON FAVORA BLE TEBM8, BY HENRY COBIA & CO., Agents, October 20 stnth30 DR8. RAOUL &LYNAH, Market and King Streets. ALFRED RAOUL, M. D.A. M. LYNAH, M. D. ARE CONSTANTLY RECEIVING FRESH AND woU selected stocks of DRUGS AND MEDICINES SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS PATENT MEDICINES TOILET AND FANCY ARTICLES PERFUMERY, SOAPS M COMBS, BRUBHE8, Ac, kc, Which thoy off<\r to tho Pnbllo and the TRADE In ?cn ?ral at the LOWEST OABH PRICES. CaU and examino our stock. ?A PREHOUII'TlOil? ftit up at afl faotfw, day and nl?ht, with th e ttroateat care. 03" Country ordern eolijltcd, thstu November 0 BRIDGES & LANE, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN RAILROAD AND CAR FINDINGS, / AND MncUlncry of Every Description. ALSO, TAFT'S PATENT ROLLING LEVER SHEARS AND PUNCHES. ? No. SO Courtland-at., corner of Greenwich, ;( NKW YORK. F KAILROAD AXLES, WHEEL8, CHAIRS, 8P1BJE8, Dolt?, Nuts, Washers, Car, Ship and Bridge BelU, " Iron Forgluga of various kinds, ki:, ko. STEEL AND RUBBER SPRINGS, LOCOMOTIVE AND J HAND I.ANTERNB, Portable Forges and Jack Screws, I Cotton Duck for Car Cover?, BUM and Silver Trimmlnge, Bolting or aU kinds, Baggago Cheeks, ko., kc. f Also, Agents for the manunvoturera of CAR HEAD LIN1NQ8. I ALBERT BRIDGES.JOEL C. LANE. J November 0_tnthaCmo / HOLMES & CALDER7 J SUCCESSORS OF . j HOLMES & CO., IMPORTERS AND DUALUIIS IN PAINTS, OILS, ?I O-LA-SS, BTS., KQS. 126 MEETING AND 55 HASEL STREETS,; CHARLESTON, H. C. . JM WM, E. HOLME?..-...Late of HOLMES A CcJH WM. CALDER.Charleston,- 6. (?Ni October lu |H