A Thermometer Rises:
For change of wind towards the upper directions only. Moisture or dampness in the air (shown by a hygrometer) increases before or with rain, fog or dew.
| On Barometer Scales the following contractions may be useful in in North Latitudes. | And the following Summary may be useful generally throughout the world. | ||
Rise for | Fall for | Rise for | Fall for |
| NE by NW-N-E | SW by SE-S-W | Cold, dry or | Warm, wet or |
| Dry or less | Wet or more | less wind | more wind |
| wind—except | wind—except | —except wet | —except wet |
| wet from NE | wet from NE | from cold side. | from cold side. |
In south latitudes substitute south or southward for north, northward, etc.
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THOMAS TENNENT,
CHRONOMETER
—AND—
NAUTICAL INSTRUMENT MAKER,
BATTERY STREET, OPPOSITE THE CUSTOM HOUSE,
SAN FRANCISCO.
ESTABLISHED IN 1850.
DEPOT FOR
U. S. Government Chronometers.
U. S. AGENCY FOR
Government Charts of Pacific Coast and Harbors.
CHRONOMETERS carefully rated by
TRANSIT OBSERVATIONS.
Repairs or Cleaning of Chronometers, Watches or Nautical Instruments executed in the best manner, under his personal supervision, and perfect satisfaction guaranteed.
A full supply constantly kept of CHARTS of all parts of the world, NAUTICAL BOOKS, NAUTICAL INSTRUMENTS, etc., etc.
No Runners Employed.
Orders left at the store promptly attended to.
JAMES CURTIS & CO.,
MARINE DRUG STORE.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
DRUGGISTS,
Corner Stewart and Market Streets,
SAN FRANCISCO.
Particular attention paid to replenishing SHIPS’ MEDICINE CHESTS with PURE MEDICINE. A good assortment of Medicine Chests always on hand and for sale at reasonable prices. Also,
PURE WINES AND LIQUORS,
Of our own importation, for sale in large or small quantities.
JAMES CURTIS & CO.
Merchants’ Mutual Marine Insurance Company
OF SAN FRANCISCO.
Organized April 8, 1863.
Capital, Paid up$500,000.
Office—406 California Street, San Francisco.
NO FIRE RISKS
Disconnected with Marine Insured by this Company.
LOSSES PAID PROMPTLY IN U. S. GOLD COIN.
Board of Directors.—C. L. Taylor, F. Roeding, Isaac E. Davis, J. B. Scotchler, A. M. Simson, James Irvine, Jabez Howes, A. L. Tubbs, C. Adolphe Low, W. J. Adams, R. E. Raimond, James P. Flint, H. B. Williams.
J. B. SCOTCHLER, President,
JABEZ HOWES, Vice-President.
E. W. Bourne, Secretary,
This Company is Engaged Exclusively in Marine Insurance.
FIRE AND MARINE.
ALL LOSSES PAID IN UNITED STATES GOLD COIN.
THE
CALIFORNIA INSURANCE COMPANY,
Office, 318 California Street,
Three doors east from Sansome.San Francisco.
Capital paid up,$200,000.
Assets,$309,000.
C. T. HOPKINS, Pres. H. B. TICHENOR, Vice-Pres.
Z. CROWELL, Secretary.
BLAKISTON & BERWICK,
Sail Makers,
No. 6 Clay Street, near East,
SAN FRANCISCO.
Sails, Tents, Awnings, etc.,
Made to order.
SAILS REPAIRED, BOUGHT AND SOLD.
Materials furnished at the Lowest Market Prices Work done with dispatch—neatly, substantially, and on the most reasonable terms.
Orders Respectfully Solicited and Promptly Attended to.
W. S. PHELPS & CO.
Ship Smiths,
13 and 15 Drumm street,
(Bet. Sacramento and California)
SAN FRANCISCO.
ALL KINDS OF
Ship and Steamboat Blacksmithing
Executed at the shortest notice,
And on the most Reasonable Terms.
SAN FRANCISCO
Screw Bolt Works,
PHELPS BROTHERS, Propr’s,
Manufacturers of all kinds of
MACHINE BOLTS, BRIDGE BOLTS,
SHIP OR BAND BOLTS,
Sets of Car Bolts, Set Screws or Tap Bolts, Lag Screws,
Wrought or Cold Punched Nuts, Turn buckles,
Bolt Ends, Etc., Etc.
13 and 15 DRUMM STREET,
SAN FRANCISCO.
J. CHADBOURNE’S
Steam Ship Bread
AND CRACKER BAKERY,
Manufactory, Oregon street, between Front and Davis,
Office, 441 JACKSON STREET,
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
ALL ORDERS FOR
Pilot and Navy Bread and Crackers,
Of every description promptly attended to.
BAKER’S EXTRA & SUPERFINE FLOUR FOR SALE.
THE PACIFIC
PUMP MANUFACTURING COMPANY
No. 213 California street, San Francisco.
THE AMERICAN SUBMERGED
Ship Pump.
Boston, January 17, 1868.
Gents—I have with great interest examined your American Submerged Ship Pump in full operation. I consider it the best Pump I have ever seen, as to the steady and large volume of water delivered, its simplicity, and great labor saved, which is the desideratum on ship board. No clapper getting off. No packing. No drawing of boxes to clear the clapper, and placed below freezing point. As to force and head pumps on board ship, it cannot be equalled. It is the pump. My opinion is based upon over half a century’s experience on shipboard.
JOHN DEVEREUX,
Surveyor American Lloyds.
THE CALIFORNIA
Dry Dock Company,
San Francisco, California, U. S.
Notice to Ship Owners, Agents, Consignees, and Masters
THE COMPANY’S DRY DOCKS,
Situate at HUNTER’S POINT, San Francisco, are now completed and in successful operation, and afford every facility for the Docking and Repair of all classes of STEAM and SAILING VESSELS.
THE GRAVING DOCK,
Excavated in the solid rock, and finished in the most substantial manner, is of the following dimensions: Extreme length, 450 feet, length on blocks, 416 feet; width at the top, 120 feet; depth, 30 feet; width at entrance, 90 feet. At mean high tide will take in a ship drawing 22 feet without lightening.
This Dock is fitted with a Caisson Gate, and is supplied with two powerful Centrifugal Steam Pumps, capable of pumping out the dock in two hours.
THE FLOATING DRY DOCK,
Will receive vessels of 1500 tons measurement and under. The Dock is 82 feet in width, and 210 feet in length; is built of the soundest Oregon Pine, thoroughly braced and bolted, and is furnished with all the requisites for Docking a Ship successfully. Vessels taken up at all stages of the tide.
The Company feel warranted in stating that Repairs on Vessels can be made as advantageously in San Francisco in respect to cost of materials and labor as in any other part of the world.
For particulars, address
JAMES POLLOCK, Supt.,
San Francisco, California, U. S.
JUDD & WHELAN,
SHIPWRIGHTS, CAULKERS,
—AND—
Spar Makers.
REFER TO
Shedd & Farran; Major James T. Hoyt. Quartermaster’s Department; Lester & Co., Shipping Office; Simmons,Rowe & Co.
Yard—on Vallejo Street,
Between Front and Davis,San Francisco.
C. MOSS.D. BEADLE.
MOSS & BEADLE,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
326 DAVIS STREET,
Corner of Washington,San Francisco.
JACKSON’S
PACIFIC HOTEL,
Pacific st., bet. Front and Davis,
SAN FRANCISCO.
No Cure.TO THE PUBLIC. No Pay.
Medical and Surgical Institute, Established in 1850, by
DR. J. C. YOUNG,
(Formerly Professor of the University, Penn.)
No. 618 Sacramento st., bet. Montgomery and Kearny,
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
Consultation by letter or otherwise, free. The Doctor can be consulted privately, and with the utmost confidence, by the afflicted, at all hours, daily, from 9 A.M. until 8 P.M.
Cures always guaranteed, or no pay required.
Seminal Weakness.
I am aware that by dwelling upon so uninviting a subject as the decay of manly vigor through the loss of the vital principle of life, the ignorant may asperse my motive; but the desire to point out to those who suffer, languish and decay, the true cause of their afflictions is too great an incentive to be forced into abeyance. How extended the terrible disease of Seminal Weakness is, no one but the practical specialist, who devotes his time to its treatment can tell; but its presence can be detected by the most inexperienced by noting the following symptoms: Weakness of the back and limbs; languishing feelings; loss of muscular power; nervousness; irritability; cold feet and hands, accompanied by hot head; symptoms of consumption; short breath; flushings of the face; aversion in society; confusion of the mind; loss of memory; nightly emissions; colorless, slight discharges upon the least excitement; palpitation of the heart; irregular appetite; variable temper, etc., etc.
To the Afflicted
there is hope and certainty of relief and cure. Thousands are annually cured, without hindrance from business or change of diet. The directions are readily followed. Even a man’s most intimate companion cannot suspect of his being treated.
Persons afflicted living in the interior, can, by stating fully in a letter their symptoms, receive advice and remedies at home.
Important to Persons Afflicted with Venereal.
There are no maladies, either in a medical or moral point of view, worse than those arising from the contamination of Venereal Poison. None are more terrible in their effects, or more disastrous in their results. MERCURY will not cure VENEREAL, BUT DRIES ON THE SURFACE, TO ALLOW IT TO POISON AND DESTROY THE BLOOD, TO RE-APPEAR IN HIDEOUS MARKS UPON THE BODY, and in the throat, mouth and nose.
Having treated a great number of nautical men, the Doctor fully understands their peculiar requirements, and the medicines prescribed do not interfere with their occupation.
All letters should be addressed, Dr. BENJ. F. JOSSELYN, M. D. 618 Sacramento street, between Montgomery and Kearny, San Francisco. Box 735.
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Typographical errors have been silently corrected but other variations in spelling and punctuation remain unaltered.
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