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' , r 22 x 13 40 x SO SB x 111 28 x 10 "3X13 i 28 x 10 " 'I . : 8X10 ., :-j ., ' 20 x 36 . :i ' JACOB I.INDI.EY'rf No. 16 West Washington Street, i lmlianapolis, Ind This day. received at . Bp.23.- ,'! E. J, BJM)WIH 4 CO., ' " :.:j-E'WiE L--E11-S7""- - v; . Kio. 1 Biites House. rriH ANKFUI. VOR PAST FAVORS, would respectfully beg I leave to inform the public that thoy arc still on hand with their usual full assortment of every thing in the way "f ' Watches,' Jewelry, Silver Ware, etc. We wt'sh itdistinctlv understood that we do not keep the low priced, bogus Watches and Jewulry. gotten np for auction sales; but will guarantee to sell good, honest articles as low as can possibly be'liud elsuwhore in tho West. OurSiur Worms warranted equal to Coin; our Watchet bound to go and keep timo, and all our goods just what we represent them to be. For further proof call and examine for yourselves. ,. . We have the best Watc hmaker in the country in our employ; so bring on your Watches. : . 'i i i ' feb2-tf rUISMTUME WAHKKOO.., ' ., , J O II V E T T E U, , , ; i .'; Uleriflian SI., in Kccly's Invincible niocU, I- 5 DOOKS SOUTH OF POST OFFICE.' T7"EEPS on hand all kindsofgood and solid Fnniitti re, which 1 he sells at the lowest prices. As Cabinet-maker and Turnor. he is prepared nt any time to promptly execute all orders in his line of business. His factory is opposite tbe Madison Depot. Ever tiling done is warranted to bo in the neatest and most durable style. . '-,n:iiv vvt-fifW ' ' aprlT-Oui ., J ' E 1 1 r. K . , i BEiHO VEI rU - y J F.y has removed his New Store, No. 21, West Washington stre.i. opposite Browning's- Drug Store, where he keeps constantly on band, the largest and . , Besil Asserted Stock of Hardware in t lie City, . ' at Heduced Prices. , . :; :, .( He has just received a large lot or Gum Keltinj;. Rope and Rlocks: Axes, Nails. Locks, Hinges, Polished tire Setts, Ames Shovels, Fine Cutlery, cic. . , J . I( A K It , . ... r 1 tsiintl manufacturer, fx 3 Squares North of Court House, on Alabama street. ' ta3 Keeos constantly on hand Klinds for Dwelling HoiitSJi es, and also makes to order Hlmds tor puunc or pr.T"m LONG,?Agcntfor Venitian Blinds, on Meridian St., near ul V ... -,m..,. ..i hi. Pnruilure Warorooni. jan.ll lie rum viiih , u.i..- - ----- mmi lea..re in n turn.nr h.. thanks to the I Ho. .nd 1 Gentlemen , of W p.; 'Je'Me ho .:,garge7s?ne"neScomZnced tbe practice of his profession ''.SwffSb, from one to a full set, inserted on P.atina, Cpar-trVUen.ien given to -gulaUiig, cleaning, and extracting Teeth. Ether given w hen re, u. red. offlce M Fletcher & ITTio. 8 East Washington street. Oct.24-tf J. B. HUL j. r. iiill G aOlDHMITII. rmit and Ornamental Nmscry. "". ..,..1 iv.lntheKr.TV H K undersigned have esi. -;"n- V,r. fr,erly g erybnsinesson hewuiKi ro(s eagt of t,,e crpor.lll0n occnpien dj ""' w' h;ve hand a general assorlmenl oi line. Indianapolis, we na a,pted to our soil and fruit trees, of such varieties" ai r w ;.lllly. Also a very climale. The trees are of he very bestqu y flu-stock of Ornamental ' S " a (1 . 1 rl- - ' to fill all orders prompt!, . Ad r., Indianapolis, inn. nov- '' , . wH,ni, Building, 19 East Washing OFFICE, Harrison's New Bank. g, Kiri. second floor, front r , i-v JTT" Office hour, from 8 A.K.ioojz- , fc4 ilITK.

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A HOME SCENE. - Come, let us put tlie curtaiti down, And lay the work asid, , And gather up tlie playtli!nn;ii Tliat you've scattered far and wide; And place the lamp upon tlie stand, Beside the prcat arm-chair, ' And bring the last new magazine, . And cut tho loaves with care : ' Now heap some coal ujxjn the grato lie loves a cheerful fire See how the flames dance merrily, And leap up high and higher! . Now place his slippers on tlie rug, And get his dressing-gown; ' For Papa will be tired and cold, ' Wheu he, conies homo from town. : .' Come let me bathe yourg lowing cheeks, And make your hair look neat, And put your bright link apron on : There, now! yu're clcau and sweetl Now sit down on tlie little bench That Grand-pa made, and seo ' ' Now still you'll bo while Mama , (Joes to lay the cloth for lea. The toa-kettli) sends forth its hum, The biscuits are so light: 1 wish he'd como it seems to mo He's rather lule to-night! Hark! wasn't that our gate that clicked? , , Hurrah! shout little Will; ,And ere I've time to tell him, hush I , lie's bounded o'er the sill. And "Papa's come!" he shouts again, , And climbs up for a kiss; And " Papa's turn, Oh! Papa's tuni!" , Echoes his little fciis. Oh, happy group, that live and lovo ' 1 "Within that humble cot: Many who dwell in palaces ,, Might envy them their lot.

) From Graham's Magazine for December. PHYSICAL EDUCATION j I,; BY . THK . EDITOR. '' - There is at present a new movement afoot, a fresh excitement springing up in the country ; one destined to do more real good than any thing which at present supplies the publio with discussion. We refer to the growing interest m physical education. - Recent ex amination has shown that tho American race, while naturally gifted with physical power, is rapidly de generating, lrwii neglecting uouuy training, ana tram devoting all its powers to pursuits which exhaust the mind. ' ' ' .,- . ' To lie hippy man must be healthy, to be liealthv he must work for health. . Idle walking is a very good exercise for those who do not exert their minds too much, but walking is not half so good as is popularly believed.' ! We 'have known students to walk their reaular five miles per diem, and yet waste away they pro testing au ino nine mac tncy tooK plenty ol exercise. " l walK live miles every uay, sir, and it that isn t exercise, I'd like to know what is ?" Tho following extract partly explains this fallacy : '' , . ' " A celebrated English physician says that pedestrian exerciso particularly exhausts the spine and brain, and is, therefore, tho kind of exercise least suited to intellectually hard-working men. It is on this account that horseback exercise is the medicine it is the horse having the fatigue and tho rider the exercise. To sufficiently jar and agitate the liver and oth er internal organs, tor some convalescents, the legs and loins must be . overworked. The thorough shake-up which is got in the saddle is without effort, or with the effort of only such muscles as can best afford it; and the student rider comes back with physical forces all refreshed, beside the exhilaration of movement for the spirits and the change of mind. ! ' ' ' , Better far than horseback, if we come to one exclu sive exercise, is the regular tuition or training of a skillful teacher ; say of a German teacher at a Turner school. His positions and exertions draw the force out of every muscle for they are the result of ana tomical and soientiuc research, itiuo ii you will, fence and box ; all are good, but let a course of calisthenic training, daily rehearsed, but never to excess, bo the foundation. . It is truly remarkable that parents, who do not hesitate to send their children to expensive schools, crumble at the ve.rv few dollar's ne.cessarv rn secure physical education! It is not enough to let boys have admission to a gymnasium. Many go there and injure themselves, and parents are afraid of gymnnaia. nnitj t'nro-eit.iTur t.lmr. a triflintr OYti-a.fivTii.ncio -a y - - would secure a training which would be a safety-guard to an injuries. aiu to return to tne au important subject of Physical Exercise as connected with health anu happiness. J. he following editorial, from the -Bal timore Dispatch, touches on the fact that a movement is afoot in this matter. ; We return thanks for the brief compliment paid in it to the editor of Graham, feeling even more grateiui mat we are recognized as one earnest in pushing this glorious reform r ' ' "There is a little peninsular kingdom in Europe, which has drawn toward it more tyes than any other largest spot on the whole continent. Wheu all the rest of the world was. wrapt in comparative barbarism, or drowned in the indolent somnolence of luxury, this little Greece nursed the germ, developed the pfant, and matured the fruit of the grandest and most whole some civilization.. In -liberty, in heroism; in ait in literature, in science even, she stood forward, the mistress of the world. Her Homer, jEschylus, Sophocles, Anacreon, Pindar poets have had no rivals ; her temples, her statues, her paintings, are the perfection of art ; her orators have been the models for all fliat came after them ; her Thermopylae, Marathon, Salanus, 1 lataea, have como down to us as the most heroic fie-hts that history takes cognizance of ; and why ? Why was it that this little sterile land, rocky, unprom ising, with naught save a bright sky and a fair sea, should have so placed herself in advance of all the world ? It was simply and inevitably the result of their culture. , . , The ancient Greek was the best possible educated man that ever existed. lie was not subiected to the hot-press methods now extant, which are based upon the principles that govern forcing houses, i His faculties, mental, moral, physical, were equably educed, his tutors properly recognizing the mutual interdependence of these three, and their mutual beneficial reaction in favor of each other. His education was public, and was imparted in tho open air. The sophists and philosophers lectured in the porches and groves ; the rnapsouisis reciteu tiieir poems on me streets ; the plays were acted in the open theatre. The boy's muscles were trained in the Palaestra, and he was taught that superiority in the physical contests was not less honorable than supremacy in the intellectual contests. Even tho more solid works, such as history, were read aloud during the progress of the national games. In this way, and by constantly having before their eyes, models of physical beauty in the works of their artists ; by having the perpetual example of patriotic warriors and eminent statesmen held up as patterns; by hearing constantly repeated the choicest wonls of tho most perfect of languages, conveying the noblest, most elevated, and most profound sentiments,

the Greek youth grew into the most fully developed man that could jiossibly exist. He was equally ready to argue with the sophists, to recite with the rhapsodisls, to contend with the athletes, or to bear amis with tlie warrior. Such culture made Alcibiades, who, despite his moral obliquity and his perverse ambition, was, after Julius Ca-sar, the most perfect man of antiquity. Such culture enabled au insignificant people like the Greeks to achieve so many unexampled triumphs in warfare, in art and in literature ; and equally, made them tho healthiest, tho longest lived, the heartiest, and most genial people of antiquity. . The Unmans under tho Republic, tlie early Persians, the Goths and Northmeu all in tho same way achieved their greatest triumphs wheu in the state ot their most perfect physical excellence, and ceased to bo victorious, forgot how to be virtuous as soon as they began to substitute luxurious idleness for exerciso and out dtxir life. Tho same has been tho case with our American Indiaus! Napoleon the greatest warrior of modern times, inured his soldiers most to hardships. Notice the upper and uiiddlo classes of England at the present day, how hearty, healthy, genial, they are, hnd withal how wonderfully brave, how jxiwurful in intellect and how influential throughout tho world, The Turks have such a wholesome opinion ol the Englishman's powers, his ubiquity and his force, and hate liiin so much, as contrasting so violently with theirown inert torpidity, that they have a saying that in case of a general conflagration of the world, the Englishman would bo sure to go about with a farthing candle lighted, in order to be able to say that he "had a hand iu causing tho fire " This physical and healthy energy it is which has so long given them a ruling share in the affairs of the world. And tho reason of it is this: that high and low (excepting among the factory people) they pay just as much attention to their physical as to their mental culture. No people exerciso so much, so constantly and so reasonably as tho English. Nobles, gentry, commonalty, all engage iu some regular athletic amusement. They have everywhere j atching, cricket, and other ball games, fencing, rowniir, span-in;:, racin", etc. Steeple chases, yacht races,

boat matches, hurdle races, cricket mains and such sports engage as much attention as the routine ot bu siness or the pursuits of scholarship and politics. As yet we have none of this, and tho national health is becoming deteriorated, the result of which must be that the national vigor will bo lessened, and the national prosperity seriously affected. We have enough of energy and to spare, as yet, is is true, but it is only as yet, and cannot be permanent. It is an energy proccding out of wonderful intellectual vigor, but the brain nowe.r caniint. ansfjiin itself without liodilv sunport. Our national type is Dr. Kane, wonderful courafio, tremendous energy, lightning speed, powerful and acute intellect, but withal such as inevitably kills prematurely a taper, given double light, but " burning at both ends." How strange it would sound in this city to hear of the Honorable Ro-nnd-so rowing down to. "White Rocks" and back, of the Reverend What-you-call-him bowling for an afternoon at cricket, etc., etc., but this is just the case with the English, not exceptionally, but universally. Lord Brougham, the universal scholar, splendid lawyer and acute politician, is also the most scientific boxer in England. The Bishops of the Church and the "Dons" of the university are famous boatmen and cricketers. Lord Derby, premier, pays more attention to horse racing than politics. Paliuerston walks his twenty, or rides his tliirty miles a day. And the women how many of our famous Baltimore belles can walk to the cattle-show grounds of an afternoon without being "overpowerod" and compelled to resort to their vinniyrette, and suffering from real palpitation of the heart V And yet there aro few women in England who will not uufatigucd go their eight aud ten miles a day. ; However, wo see symptoms of a better day coming. The press has taken up the physical education movement. The genial doctrine, and its sine qua non, regular exercise, is beginning to be trumpeted everywhere. Put on muscle, says Emerson, and Holmes. Walk, ladies, and live out doors, says Home Journal Willis. Hilaritcr! shouts our favorite Loland. And their tones are far from being unregarded. Physical education is a general theme of lectures and essays. Exercise clubs and gymnasia are springing up everywhere. Tho papers have daily records of games at cricket, wicket, base ball, etc. Equestrianship is becoming a desideratum with tho sex, and what they will thoy have. ; The movement is becoming general, and a few years will see as much attention paid to the bodily as to the spiritual muscle. Our children and our children's children will owe many thanks to tho men and women who have thrown themselves in tho van of this movement and so forcibly urged its importance and necessity to our well-being. We are glad to notice that these matters have not been overlooked in our city.. Very recently a party of our most prominent citizens have inaugurated a gymnastic association that is already properly organized and numbers over three hundred members. Already several clubs for cricket and base ball are creeping into notice, and we hope a year or two more will see the physical prowess of Baltimore capable of successfully competing with that of any other city. Keep the ball in motion." ALL SORTS OF ITEMS. Madame rfeilfer, the celebrated traveler, is dead. New York City pays 8909,000 for police, or 82,600 I per day. The census of the population of Spain foots up 15,494,330. ' ' There are now 1,249 students in Oberlin College, 513 females. , .". A horse was recently sold in New Bedford, Mass., .for fjty cents. ,'' N. Y.city pays $400,000 for lamps and gas, or about $1,100 per day. ( , ' , . N. Y. city pays $480,000 annually for salaries, or about $1,800 per day. A canary known to bo 21 years old, died recently in England. : N. Y. city pays $250,000 annually for cleaning streets, or about $680 per day. N. Y. city pays $1,400,000 for public schools annually or about $3,800 per day. i - . Letters from the cotton growing region say tho crop may reach 8,500,000 bales. Tho distance from St. Louis to San Francisco, by the Overland route, is 2,886 miles. N.. Y.city pays $800,000 annually in support of alms houses, or about $2,290 per day, Barntim is delivering a lecture on " Moneymaking" to large audiences in England. The new submarine cable had been laid between England at Aldborough and Holland. Of 53 parcels of real estate offered at sheriff's sale, in Cincinnati, last week, only one was sold. A merchant of Alexandria recently charged the ' Viceroy of Egypt $300,000 for twelve mirrors. The latest statistical accounts, derived from the Russian census of 1852, give to European Russia a population of 57,227,760. . ! The Newburyport Herald states that one man lias purchased 10,000 barrels of apples lately, in that vicinity, for a Boston firm. Six Artesian wells have been Iwred in Toledo, from which a constant flow of water is obtained. None were sunk below 200 feet. .......

ALLEGED RAILROAD FRAUDS IN IOWATHB GREAT $755,000 HWINDI.K AT LYONS LAND

JOHBINU FKAUUS THE WAV CONOKEljbMKN ARK HOL'OIIT 8. S. JONKK, rjtEMDENT OK THE A1K LINE, I'AYINO S"55,000 TO GET TUB IOWA LAND GRANT THROUGH CONGRESS. ... - ' i 1 ' ' From the Lyons firror.' Many of our readers are already advised that legaj proceedings against the president and directors of tho Iowa Central Air Line railroad have been commenced by a numlier of influential stockholders residing in Lyons, Maquokcta aud Anamosa. These proceedings seek to abrogate two extensive contracts unfavorable to the interests of the road, on the ground that Mr. S. S. Jones, president of the road, is a party in interest in them. They ask that $245,000 of stock, in various sums, now gtamliiK' to tlie credit of the president and a ma jority of the directors, on the booKS of the company, and winch is alleged to bo fraudulent, be cancelled. They furthermore ask the courts to cancel $755,000 of bonds issued and placed in the hands of tho president, paying obligations which he alleges he entered into for procuring tho land grant, and which he will not account for further than by saying that he had used them for the purjKise above specified. :' Another feature of the prtx'ecdingsisan application to the Court fr n injunction to prevent the I. C. A. L. Road from consolidating with tho Chicago, Iowa and Nebraska Railroad, or in other words to prevent tho President and Directors of the former from selling the land grant to tho latter. ! From our knowledge of tho men engaged in this movement, and from a review of tho history of tho whole management of this road, wo are warranted in saying that they have not commenced these iiuiiortant proceedings without a strong conviction that the step was absolutely necessary for the protection of their own rights as stockholders, and the rights of the ooplo along eighty miles of tho , Air Line road, winch ought to have been built before this; which might have been built but for the obstructions which these, fraudulent bonds interposed, and which Mr. Jones' scheme practically abandons. ' ' n - . Of tho suits for abrogating the contracts we shall say nothing at this time, further than to remark that if,as is alleged, tho chief ollicer of the road is a party in in terest, they are a fraud upon the stockholders, aud ought to be annulled. There can bo but little difference of opinion with regard to the propriety of a thorough investigation into the reason why a million of dollars of stock and bonds have been issued to the President aud directors, while no account is given of tho use made of tho greater portion ot them, except a general statement that they have been appropriated in a way which labors under a strong suspicion of illegality. ' If the President and othor parties implicated havo acted uprightly in the matter, they should court the fullest investigation ; if they have defrauded: the company they should bo exposed and punished. . . un me general question invoiveu in me suit to prevent consolidation, we have a few words to offer. ' The plan of consolidation was substantially this: The iudebtcdess of tho Iowa Central was to be capitalized into stock at $1,400,000; the C. L and N. Railroad was to be completed to Cedar river by the present company, and then the two roads were to be consolidated for the purpose of continuing on to the Missouri river; but in the meantime, as an offset to tho $1,400,000 of Iowa Central stock, the C. I. and N. ConiEany was to havo an equal amouut ($1,400,000), with mil scrip attached, making the stock of tho consolidated company $2,800,000, with only eighty-one miles of road completed. ' We Lave in this scheme a remarkable spectacle ! The Iowa Central Company, abandoning their line, on which a large amount of grading haif been done and much expended a line specifically designated in the Congressional grant as the one on which the road should be built and violating all their solemn pledges to the people whom they have induced to subscribe to their stock and pay their money. The. C. N. and N. Company consent to saddle eighty-one miles of road with more than $1,C00,000 of extra stock, making its apparent cost three times as much as it actually should be. Now it is obvious that some motives must have operated on these parties other than those which control honorable men in a fair transaction. What were these motives ? So far as the Iowa Central Company is concerned, they sell the land grant to a rival company for the purpose of capitalizing their one million ot fictitious issues into the stock of the consolidated company. In other words, they pocket one million dollars as the price of the land grant. . : -i : 1 ,; The motives of the Clinton Company are not very difficult to understand. By this arrangement they increase the amount of theirown stock several thousand dollars, and gain $1,400,000 of land scrip, besides becoming residuary legatees to all property in the land grant. .'(':': ' ''' ; ' , j' . i EXTRAVAGANCE OF THE DAY. T. Parker says some shrewd things which go directly to the heart of the popular follies of the day. lie has no exalted idea of the present system of domestic education, as tending to fraugality or economy. Ho says in one of his sermons ; .: i - i : " In tho town of Somewhere lives Mr. Manygirls. Ho is a toilsome merchant, his wife a hand-working house-keeper.: Once they were poor, now they are rich. They have seven daughters, whom they train up in utter idleness. : They are all doing nothing; they spend much money ; but not in works of humanity, not oven in elegent accomplishments, in painting, dancing, music and the like, so paying in spiritual beauty what they take in material means. They never read nor sing ; they are know nothings, and only in vain show, as useless as a ghost, and as ignorant as the block on which their bonnets are made. ' Now,- as these seven 'ladie3,' as the newspapers call the poor things, so ignorant and helpless, aro not only idle, can earn nothing, but they consume much. What a load of finery is on their shoulders, and heads and necks. Mr. Mnnvpirls hires manv men and women to wait 1 on h;s daughters' idleness, and these servants are withdrawn from the productive work of the shop or tho farm, and set to the unproductive work of nursing these seven grown up babies.- , i -. " On the other side of the way the Hon. Mr. Manysons has seven sons, who are the exact match for the merchant's daughters ; rich idle, some of them disso lute, debauchery coming before their beard ; still useless, earning nothing, spending much, and waiting more. Their only labor is to kill time, in summer they emigrate from pond to pond, from iake to lake, having a fishing line, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other. These arc fast families in Some where ; their idleness is counted pleasure. Six of these sons will marry, and perhaps five of Manygirls' daughters, and what families they will find to live on the toil of their grandfather's bones, until a commercial crisis, and the wear and tear of time, has dissipated their fortune and they are forced reluctantly to toil 1 " Besides there is an enormous waste of food, fuel, clothing, and every thing. We arc the last economiwasteful cvery-where, they do not know how to econo- - j . l I . . . nrt i . uuze, aim tney nave not me means, j-uey must, live from hand to mouth, and half what is put into the hand perishes before it reaches the mouth. So likewise are the rich wasteful who have inherited money, almost never such as have earned it. I he great mass ot the people are not economical, but wasteful. It is tho habit of the whole country.

INDIANAPOLIS BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. , The twenty-thin! anniversary of this Society was lii-Id at Roberts Chapel on the evening of Thursday, (Thanksgiving day), Nov. 25, 185.

Jn the absence ot James Blake, President, J. R. good, Vice President, in the chair. Praver by I Osby Rev. Air. achindler. ' , . L Amount of funds received. Amount expended Broken bank notes received. . $622 88 .$590 22 . 1100 600 22 Balance in the treasury .$22 66 - The reccitrts of the Female Depository havo been 962 pieces of clothing, 35 pairs ot shoes, 12 pieces of tin ware, and sundry items of tea and coffee in all 1,046 items, all of which have been distributed by the committees. Tho receipts of the Male Depositors liave been in numbers of items, 1,112, of which all but some refuse articles havo been distributed. ' ' Verbal reports were made by several of the visitors,' evincing that by the careful watchfulness and kind attention of the committees much destitution and suffering during the past year had been relieved, and iniporitions avoided. The reports of the officers showed an increased number of persons who, arriving here in destitution, have been aided by the Society, and on the recommendation of the officers have been taken by. the various railroads on their way. , .- The following resolutions were unanimously adopt' cd: . . ... . lieiwhed, That the ministers of every church in this city be requested to explain definitely the objects and operations of this Society, and urge the members of their congregations to contribute liberally to its means, both in money and clothing ; and that the citizens be' requested to have theircontribtitionsin readiness for the calls of the committee on and after Thursday next. . limiloed, That the grateful thanks of this Society be tendered to the officers of the various railroads from our city, who havo aided our efforts to relieve suffering strangers, by passing them over their roads gratuitously, to reach their destinations. , , Jiesolved, ' That the officers of the various railroads from this city be requested to continue their liberality1 in taking the sulfuring strangers over their roads at the request of the officers of this society ; that the tit-, most care and watchfulness shall bo exercised in the, case of recommending any destitute person to the kindness of these ofiiccrs. ; - - ' ..n lrJlesolved, That this Society most earnestly advise' and request the citizens firmly and uniformly to dis-r courage all lurnishing of aid to street begging, and . in every instance of such application at their houses, ' or on the street, they aro requested to accompany the applicant to some member of the committee of this So-1 ciety for relief. .... ...ir Itesolved, That card bills of the districts and mem-, bers of tho Executive Committee be provided for distribution to all the members of this Society. ' ' Jtrsoloed, That the Treasurer and depositories of clothing shall rejiort at tho close of each week to the President of this Society, the members ot the Execu- . tive Committee who have failed, until complete returns be received. The President is authorized to fill all' vacancies by persons appointed not serving. ' Resolved, That the members of the Executive Committee be enjoined carefully to keep an account of their visits to the poor during the year, and attend, punctually, at the Anniversary of tho Society, and make definite reports of the number of visits made, t and of persons or families relieved. ., ... Resolved, That the visitors be requested to make written reports to tho Secretary at least ten days pre- ' ! vious to tho annual meeting, and that the Secretary bo' requested to examine the several reports and embody whatever is of interest or importance in his own re- , port. ' ' - Resolved, lhat the thanks of the Society be tendered to Elder & Harkness, for their liberality in printing the cards of this Society again this year without charge.'- : The following officers were elected for the ensuing1 ' year: ... , .':-' ,1'residcM James Blake. . t Vice 'residents D. Macy, J. R. Osgood. . ' 'Secretary Calvijt Fletcher. . , .. 'Treasurer James M. Ray. , ' Depository of Mile ClothingWashington st. F F Wright, 66 East Depository of Female Clothing--Mrs M II Kin-

der, wj Washington st. Soliciting Committee on Washington street Jas. " Blake, James M Rav, Calvin Fletcher, Alfred Harri- 1 son, S T Bowen, J R Osgood, Wm S. Hubbard, S D. Maxwell, , ,, . . , The following persons were appointed the Executive Commit tee, and are requested to meet at Roberts Chapel on Wednesday morning at nine o'clock, Dec. 1st, 1858, to arrange for visiting : 'v District No 1, south of Market and East of Noble streets L M. Vauee and Mrs Hulings. District No 2,, south of Market, between Noble and .( East sts Samuel S Scibert, Mrs Brando and Mrs S A Fletcher, jr. ' ' . .,, District No 3, south of Market, between East and ' New Jersey sts G W Hill and Mrs F Wingate.' " 1'4 District No. 4, south of Market, between New. Jer- .i sey and Alabama sts Mr Sinker and Mrs. Landes. District No 5, south of Market, between Alabama and Delaware streets W B Catterson and Mrs. PowDistrict No 6, south of Market, between Delaware and Pennsylvania streets Dr Abbett and Miss Mary ' Kinder. - .' , . i . i .1 District No 7, south of Market, between Pennsylvania and Meridian streets T II Sharpe and Mrs AW Morris. District No 8, south of Market, between Meridian ,r and' Illinois streets J F Ramsey and Mrs Hassehnan. District No 9, south of Market, between Illinois and ' Tennessee streets L B Wilson and Mrs Vajen. 1 '' District No 10, south of Market, between Tennessee street and Canal J B Dillon, Mrs Waters and Mrs Landis. - - : 1 District No 11, south of Market, between Canal and ' River Wm Geisendorff and Mrs Dawson. District No 1 2, north of Market, between River and , Mississippi streets Samuel Rooker, A E Locke and Mrs Anna Clark. District No 13, north of Market, between Mississippi and Tennessee streets Samuel Espy and Mrs Wm " Blake. . . . ... ,i District No 14, north of Market, between Tennes-O see and Illinois streets Adam Knodle and Mrs Shortridge. . , ' ., - i District No 15, north of Market, between Illinois , . ' and Meridian streets Mr Kellogg and Mrs Sophia P . Ray. ' ' District No 16, north of Market, between Meridian ' and Pennsylvania streets C Fletcher and Mrs Bas- . sett. District No 1 7, north of Market, between Pennsylvania and Delaware streets -Mr I N Phipps and Mrs Wiseman. : District No 18, north of Market, between Delaware and Alabama streets Rev W Holliday and Mrs G ; Tousey. 1 i . ' F, ' District No 19, north of Market, between Alabama ." and New Jersey streets J T Wright and Mrs Batty. District No 20, north of Market, between New Jersey and East streets Mr Stewart and Miss Lizzie ! Johnson and Mrs Wood. . ' ; ; i