14th Dist.-19th Ward.-John T. Finletter, Lawrence Tobin.

15th Dist.-31st Ward.-Wm. G. Lamon, Chas. W. Potter.

16th Dist.-25th Ward, south of Wheat Sheaf Lane. Wm. F. Miller, E. H. Gilbert.

17th Dist.-23d Ward and portion of 25th Ward, north of Wheat Sheaf Lane.-Peter Gold, R. L. Wright.

18th Dist.-22d Ward, south of Chelten av., and 28th Ward, north of Lehigh av, and west of Broad street and Germantown av. - Fountain Ward, T. A. Sloan.

19th Dist.-21st Ward, and 22d Ward north of Chelten av.-Chas. E. Idell, John J. Quigg. 20th Dist.-24th Ward.-F. M. Mayhew, Jesse T. Vogdes.

21st Dist.-27th Ward.-Robert Paschall, Isaac Leech.

REGISTRY BUREAU.

Chief Officer.-Samuel L. Smedley. Register.-John H. Dye.

TRUSTEES OF GAS-WORKS.

Term expires.

Term expires. M. Hall Stanton......1876 N. Hilles (Pres't)... 1877 Samuel S. Kelly......1876 R. H. Beatty...1877 George I. Young.....1876 Wm. R. Leeds........1878 Fred. G. Wolbert.. 1876 A. C. Roberts.......1878 Henry Bumm.........1877 Nathan L. Jones.....1878 James McManes......1877 R. R. Campion.......1878 Chief Engineer.-Thomas R. Brown. Registrar.-Thomas Noble. Cashier.-Samuel M. White.

BOARD OF HEALTH. Henry Davis (President), Wm. H. Ford, M.D. (Secretary), Charles B. Barrett, James Steel, James A. McCrea, M.D., Samuel Ashhurst, M.D., James West, Horatio G. Sickel, Enoch W. C. Greene, Henry W. Gray, Joseph G. Patterson, A. A. Hirst.

Health Officer.-John E. Addicks.
Chief Clerk-Wm. P. Troth.

Registration Clerk.-George E. Chambers.
Port Physician.-Dr. Philip Leidy.
Lazaretto Physician.-Dr. D. K. Shoemaker.

Quarantine Master-Dr. A. W. Matthews.
Steward of Lazaretto.-Lewis Kugler.

MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL.
Physician.-Dr. Wm. W. Welch.
Steward.-James S. Haynes.

GUARDIANS OF THE POOR.
James S. Chambers (President), Peter Lane, Jr.
(Treasurer), Joseph H. Collins, Robert T. Gill,
Henry Bain, Wm. J. McAleer, Wm. A. Durfor,
George W. Fairman, Wm. J. Nead, Wm. N.
Marks, Wm. M. Bunn, Wm. H. Ewell.

Secretary-Robert S. Williamson.

Steward of Almshouse.-Ellis P. Phipps. Physician-in-Chief Insane Department.-Dr. David D. Richardson,

Secretary-Henry W. Halliwell. Superintendent of School Buildings.-Lewis H. Esler.

INSPECTORS OF THE COUNTY PRISON.

John B. Biddle, M.D. (President), Edmund Smith (Secretary), Henry C. Howell (Treasurer), Joseph R. Chandler, James A. Freeman, Casper Wistar, M.D., J. Rodman Paul, M.D., Robert P. Gillingham, John Price Wetherill, Wm. M. Reilly, Edmund Browning.

MANAGERS OF THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION. Samuel Kilpatrick (President), Samuel C. Willets, John Fry, William M. Wilson, Wm. A. Duff, Wm. Bumm, Wm. J. Warne, John Noblett, Richard G. Oellers, William Gulager.

Secretary.-Edwin Palmer.
Superintendent.-Samuel W. Cattell.

INSPECTORS OF THE EASTERN PENITENTIARY.
Richard Vaux (President), Charles Thomson
Jones (Secretary), John M. Maris (Treasurer),
Thos. H. Powers, Alexander Henry.

Warden.-Edward Townsend.

HOUSE OF REFUGE President.-James J. Barclay. Vice-Presidents.-John M. Ogden, John Rob

bins.

Treasurer.-Henry Perkins.
Secretary.-Wm. S. Perot.

Board of Managers.-J. J. Barclay (Chairman), Fred. Collins (Secretary), George M. Troutman (Assistant Secretary).

DIRECTORS OF CITY TRUSTS.

Wm. Welsh (President), Gustavus S. Benson, Alexander Biddle, James Campbell, James L. Claghorn, Charles H. T. Collis, Louis Wagner, William H. Drayton, A. Wilson Henszey, Wm. B. Mann, John H. Michener, Henry M. Phillips (Vice-President), Wm. S. Stokley, George H. Stuart.

Secretary.-Henry W. Arey.

GIRARD ESTATES.

Superintendent.-Charles S. Smith. Assistant Superintendent. —James A. Kirkpatrick. Agent.-Samuel S. Cavin.

BOARD OF PORT WARDens. John J. Kersey (President), Samuel J. Christian, George W. Hacker, Wm. M. Greiner, Wm. Cramp, Sr., W. B. Gallagher, Ludlam Matthews,

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George Stockham, James M. Ferguson, Wm. A.
Hurley, Harrison Snyder, Chas. McGinley, John
Welsh, H. B. Bates, John B. Lewellen, Frank R.
Malone, J. M. Baker, of Chester, Richard H.
Morris, of Bristol.

Master Warden.-James G. McQuaide.
Harbor Master.-Álex. P. Colesberry.
Clerk of Board.-George B. Miller.

COMMISSIONERS OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Samuel C. Perkins (President), Lewis C. Cassidy, Mahlon H. Dickinson, Thomas J. Barger, John L. Hill, Richard Peltz, Samuel W. Cattell, Thomas Miller, Thomas E. Gaskill, Wm. Brice. Ex-officio.-Wm. S. Stokley, George A. Smith, A. Wilson Henszey.

Secretary.-F. de Haes Janvier.
Architect.-John McArthur, Jr.
Superintendent.-Wm. C. Macpherson.

FAIRMOUNT PARK COMMISSION.

Morton McMichael (President), Henry M.
Phillips (Treasurer), John Welsh (Vice-Presi-
dent), Theo. Cuyler, Wm. Sellers, James Mc-
Manes, Eli K. Price, Gustavus Remak, John
Rice, Thos. A. Scott. Ex-officio.-Wm. S. Stok.
Ley
Wm. H. McFadden, Samuel L. Smedley,
Wm. Dixey, Geo. A. Smith, A. Wilson Henszey.

Superintendent.-Russel Thayer.
Secretary.-Ridgway W. Robbins.
Solicitor.-William H. Yerkes.

Magistrates of the City of Philadelphia. Court No. 1.-Jesse S. Bonsall, No. 1351 Passyunk av.

The

THE Ledger is one of the best daily newspapers in the country, and wields an immense influence for good in Philadelphia and vicinity. Everybody reads it, trusts it and follows its counsels. Anything published in the Ledger is regarded by Philadelphians as authentic. Ledger has a daily circulation of ninety thousand copies, and probably over half a million readers. One of the peculiarities of the Ledger is the entire absence from its columns of self-laudation, puffery, clap-trap and braggadocio. Its news and its discussions of public questions have always been characterized by truthfulness and an apparent desire to disseminate correct information. If it did not agree with its contemporaries, it never called them knaves and scoundrels by way of argument, but stated its views dispassionately, and thus acquired universal esteem and respect.— Scientific American, New York.

GLEANINGS.

It is a good rule always to back your friends and face your enemies.

LET friendship creep gently to a height: if it rush to it, it may soon run itself out of breath.

OUR wants expand with our means of gratifying them, but seldom contract with those means. SAY nothing, do nothing, which a mother would not approve, and you are on the certain road to happiness.

VALUE the friendship of him who stands by you in the storm; swarms of insects will surround you in the sunshine.

WHOEVER is honorable and candid, honest and courteous, is a true gentleman, whether learned or unlearned, rich or poor. NEVER shrink from doing anything which your business calls you to. The man who is above his business may one day find his business above him. HE that sympathizes in all the happiness of others enjoys the safest happiness, and he that is warned by all the folly of others has attained the soundest wisdom.

THE PUBLIC LEDGER of Philadelphia is the leading journal of Pennsylvania, and one of the leading journals of the country.-New York Herald, October 8, 1875.

MANY a true heart that would have come back like a dove to the ark, after its first trangression, has been frightened beyond recall by the savage conduct of an unforgiving spirit.

KEEP FRIENDS WITH THE WOMEN.-If you want to have a man for your friend, never incur the illwill of his wife. Public opinion depends in a great measure on the average prejudices of womankind. AVARICE. The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert, which sucks in all the rain and dews with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. A GOOD HINT.-If in instructing a child you are vexed with it for want of adroitness, try, if you have never tried before, to write with your left hand, and remember that a child is all left hand.

INDUSTRY.-If wisdom is the head and honesty the heart, energetic industry is the right hand, of every exalted vocation, without which the shrewdest insight is blind and the best intentions are abortive.

GOOD MANNERS.-Good manners are the blossoms of good sense and, it may be added, of good feeling; for if the law of kindness be written in the heart, it will lead to that disinterestedness in little as well as great things, that desire to oblige and attention to the gratification of others, which is the foundation of good manners.

SECRET OF COMFORT.-Though sometimes small evils, like invisible insects, inflict pains, and a single hair may stop a vast machine, yet the chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex one, and in prudently cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones are let on long leases.

"I CAN'T."-Shame on you! The expression is bad enough on the tongue of infancy. To that of manhood or womanhood it is a disgrace. How do you know you "can't"? Have you tried? Well, if you have, try once more. The task before you may be difficult. What if it is? It is, then, the more worthy of performance. Courage then, young man or young woman, whoever you be. Resolve to know no such word as "can't."

WISDOM is better than riches; wisdom guards thee, but thou hast to guard the riches. Riches diminish in the using, but wisdom increases in the use of it.

THE PUBLIC LEDGER has long been known in England as one of the most remarkable papers in America. It has now reached a circulation of over 92,000 copies a day, and is acknowledged to be the ablest and best conducted as well as the most influential paper in Philadelphia, and among the great powers of public opinion throughout the Union.-DR. MACAULAY, editor of Leisure Hour, London.

KINDNESS.-A kind man will probably find kindness all about him. The merciful man, as a general thing, will obtain mercy. He who has always had a kind excuse for others, who has looked at the brightest side of the case-he who has given his pardon and his help whenever he could, who has never brought his fellow-man into any strait by reason of not helping him-will find that the mercy he has bestowed flows back upon him in a full and spontaneous spring. He will make a merciful world by the mercy he himself shows.

BE CHEERFUL AT YOUR MEALS.-The benefit derived from food taken depends very much upon the condition of the body while eating. If taken in a moody, cross or despairing condition of the mind, digestion is much less perfect and slower than when taken with a cheerful disposition. Very rapid and silent eating should be avoided, and some topic of interest introduced at meals that all may partake in; and if a hearty laugh is occasionally indulged in, it will be all the better. It is not uncommon that a person dining in pleas ant and social company can eat and digest well that which, when eaten alone and the mind ab sorbed in some deep study or brooding over cares or disappointments, would be long undigested in the stomach, causing disarrangement and pain, and if much indulged in become the cause of permanent and irreparable injury to the system.

CHILDREN. Did you ever think of it, how independent children are of circumstances?—how the children of the poor are as happy with a penny toy, with a bit of broken china, a rag baby or their mud pies as the offspring of the rich with their endless variety of playthings selected with so much care from the most expensive shops! Do you know how ready children are to find enjoyment in any condition with a contentment and cheerfulness which grown-up people may indeed envy? It is not until they become acquainted with the conventionalities of the world, and find they lack what is most important to the world's eye, that discontent creeps into the heart and dissatisfaction takes the place of this blessed state. Tell us not, says a recent writer, of the trim, precisely-arranged homes where are no children. Tell us not of the never-disturbed nights and days, of the tranquil, unanxious heart, where children are not. We care not for these things. God sends children for other purposes than merely to keep up the race-to enlarge our hearts; to make us unselfish and full of kindly sympathies and affections; to give our souls higher aims, and to call out all our faculties to extended enterprise and exertion; to bring round our fireside bright faces and happy smiles and loving, tender hearts. Our soul blesses the great Father every day that he has gladdened the earth with little children.