The Montreal witness, 20 décembre 1862, samedi 20 décembre 1862

[" COMMERCIAL.REVIEW AND FAMILY NEWSPAPER.VUL.XVII.MONTREAL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1862.No.101.SILVER MOVEMENT IN TORONTO\u2014REMARK- ABLE ARREST FOR SHOP-LIFTING.(By Special Dispatch to Daily Witness.) Tomoxro, Dee.18.\u2014The priacipal merchants here publish aa advert: \u2018ment to-day, anoouncisg that from this date, Ameri.an Silver will be taken subject to a discount of 4 per cent.Mr.Gillespie, of the Hamilton Spectator, has been dismissed from the position of Emigrant Agent at Hamilton.There is much excitement hers in consequence of the arrest of a lady, moving in the best society, ons charge of shoplifiing.An astonishing quantity of articles have been given up to the police.Matthew Cameron bas been engaged to defend the lady.JOTTINGS BY THE WAY.(From a Correspondent.) PHILADELPHIA.There are some slight peculiaritiaz in every city that attract the notice of & stranger as soon as be enters.Thanks to Stephen Girard, there are very few wooden buildings ia the \u201c City of brotherly love ;\" and nearly all the houses, both great and small, are built of brick, the lower courses, however, being faced with marble, and the windows on the firat, or first and second storys, are provided with solid white sbutters, in place of lat- tieo blinds.The streets are all laid out in Equares, some of the principal streets being fine broad avenues, while others, like Chestnut\u2014the principal busioess street\u2014are almost as narrow as Notre Dame in Montreal.Philadelphia may well be termed the * City of Railways,\u201d being crossed and recrossed in nearly every direction by the Horse-Cars.There are a great macy different lines, the most of them running across the city on one street.They exchange passengers with each otber at all the cross-streets, 80 that a person can go by rail to almost any portion of the city.The other \u2018vehicles seem universally made to fit the rails, so that they all use the track, and the roads being carefully parod and kept in good order, thers is litile or no in- ferference with ordinary travel.The cars are neatand clean,\u2014and not one of them runs on Sunday.Philadelphia can boast of haviag one of the finest and best kept Hotels in the country\u2014the Continental\u2014 owned by Stevens, of hotel celebrity.It somewhat resembles ibe Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York, kept by the same proptietors, beicg nothing inferior to it, avd apparently equally well patronized.Girard College is one of the sights of Philadelphia.The college property is over forty acres in extent, eitu.ated some two miles from the centre of the city, and entirely surrounded by a stone wall 10 feet high.The college itself is a very fine marble building, somewhat in the design of a Grecian temple, surrounded by co- lemne, 34 in Dumber, and each costing about $13,000.The building is freproot inside and out, tha only wood used in its construction being for the doors and windows.The roof is composed of marble tiles, weighiog about half a ton each ; and some ides of the sizs of the buildiog may bs had from the statement that about 20,000 people could stand on the area of the roof.A fine view of the city can be had from the top of the college, There are, besides, three large buildiogs, in which the boyacat, sleep, and lears,\u2014everytbiog being done with military precision and regularity, and the whole arrangements showing perfect neatness and order.The appearance of the boys was excellent, their looks and conversation showing them to be both healthy and bappy ; and, thanks tos proviso in the founder's will, they wear no uniform as a badge of their dependent condition.Another clause in the Girard-will provides that \u2018 no ecclesiastic, missionary, or mivister, of any sort, sball ever be allowed to enter the college, even as a visitor.This of course precludes ching, but religious exercises are conducted every undsy by & layman, and tbe Bible snd prayers ere used in the school every day, There are now 400 boys in the institution, costing Isst year, In all, about $00,000.The cost per boy was formerly about $200 r annum; but war times induced economy, and it 88 been reduced as above.Near Girard College are the Falrmount Water-works, which supply the city with water.Tbe river bas been crossed by a dam, and the power thus acquired turns some 8 or 10 buge water-wheels, which force the water in per up to an immense pond or reservoir near by, and from which it is distributed sll over the city.The quantity taised in November was over 300,000,000 gallons,\u2014but this was ail required, and the works are now almost tested to their full capacity.The National Mint is one of the attractions of Philadelphia.facility is given for visitiog it and seeing the whole of the works, Cents were the only coin being made when \u2018Wwe were there, but the process is the same with all coins, save that the cents sre not milled on the edges.Your limite would not permit of an account of the pro- css of \u201cmaking an honest penny,\u201d but it is a very in- terestiog one-