THE DAlLi KENlNty TELEGRAFHPHIL ADPniA, THURSDAY, j DECEMBER 31, 1838. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Editorial ornnom or th li-ading jochkals CPOIt CCBRBBt TOPICS COMPILBB KVK3T DAT FOB TH1 KTKNIHO TKLK-JBAFB. (Jeneral Urant'8 Xext Battle. From the 2V. Y. Tribune. The Government now employs over sixteen thousand offloe-holders in collecting, account ing, and paying the revenue and expenditures of some twenty-five thousand other offloers, and the interest en the pnbllo debt. The temptations and opportunities for dishonesty in this branoh of the service exceed those in all the others combined. The majority of the people believe, with good reason, that rotten ness and oorrnption reek in the Departments of Customs and Internal Revenue, and that in these fields will lie President Grant's earliest and moet urgent opportunities for reform. The causes of this corruption are manifold. At first we were willing to assign as a leading one the novelty of the internal revenue systsm. But the internal revenue taxes have now been In operation long enough for the modes of prevention, as well as of stealing under it, to be reduoed to a system. If this has not been done it is due not to the novelty of the system, but to the negligence of those who administer it. The internal revenue system was organized by the lion. George S. Bout Will, as chief of the bureau, and mo3t of the obstacles arising from its novelty were over come under his vigorous and eilioient admin istration. The administration of Andrew Johnson has been one long effort to use the appointments in the revenue and customs Bervioe as bribes to buy up supporters for his politioal polloies. This has been the main cause of dishonesty in the collection of reve nues. For the moment it was understood, as it has now for three years been, that no offi cial, however honest, would be retained who opposed the President's Reconstruction pofioies, nor, however corrupt, be removed if he supported them, it was publio notice to all to "steal all they could, and stand by the President." Behind Commissioner Rollins and Beoretary MoCnlloch there has been for three years the marplot hand of Andrew Johnson, interfering with and overruling every effort to seoure honesty; for it has been a common ooinoi denoe that those who were most ready to agree with the President, in order to Keep otlioe, were most ready to sell the revenues for their private profit. It is impossible to know, therefore, whether MoCuUoch and Rollins are defloient in executive ability or not, since they have had no opportunity to execute their own polioies. But the majority of the customs officers and internal revenue assessors, from Maine to California, being selected from those who have sold their conviotions to get offioe, have, with the same ease, prostituted their official powers to get money. The difficulty is not, as the President untruly charges in his message, that these officers collect the revenue and do not pay it over. An ordinary mode of swindling the Government is for the oolleotor to accept, on his own aooount, a third or fourth of the tax to which the Government is entitled, and allow the distiller or other tax-payer to esoape the re mainder of the tax by a false return. Another mode is to make seizures, and then effect compromises, in which a thousand dollars paid to the oollector or district attorney has more influence to settle the case than $20,000 paid as tax to the Governmen.. The whole system of seizures by informers is of very doubttul expediency and economy. For the informers, having as large pecuniary interest In the transaction as the distillers, and con sisting often of men of at least no better charaoter, go into the business as a specula tion. They work every seizure as a plaoer for plunder, not as officers in the interest of the Government. They so often use corrupt means to secure a profitable compromise, or the conviction of some obstinate party who refuses to compromise, that a pretended effort to oolleot a tax beoomes a criminal conspiracy to defraud the tax-payer. When the Government begins by bribing and buying informers and witnesses, it ought to remember that it will only seoure the ser vices of its agents in case the criminals whom they are prosecuting shall not bid higher. The moment their bribe covers the informer's fees the case will be settled to suit them. The whole system of giving informers a distribu tive share a third or half of the property seized tends to endless corruption. Take the Collector of the Port, for instance. lie receives a Balary of $0400 to pay for his ser vices towards collecting so much of the reve nues as are paid without seizure, while his distributive shares or fees as an informer in the seizure cases amount to over $30,000 a year. Ilia perquisites in these plunder cases are five times hU salary, and considerably more than the salary of the President of the United States. But what he receives from these cases is but a small share of the whole plunder divided. The Naval Officer comes in for an annual in come of forty thousand dollars from the same souroe. The Surveyor of the Port and the hundreds of subordinate inspectors and other officers by whom these seizures are worked up all have their shares. As these officers make five times as much out of violations of the law as they do ont of its obedienoe, live times as much of their attention is given to seeing the law violated as to seeing it obeyed. Here opens another system of corruption. Importers, knowing that customs officers can by a seizure put them to about as much loss in an unjust case as in a just one, prefer to retain and pay certain officers of the Custom House, and so avoid ail seizures, whether guilty or innocent. The discovery, the other day, that certain firms had imported over half a million dollars' worth of silks, under pretense that they were window shades, shows one of the modes of swindling rendered possible by corruption in the Custom House. Of course, only a few of the packages of goods imported can be actually opened and examined. It is supposed, how ever, that if out of twenty packages the ap praiser examines two at random, he may safely pass the others. But if the importer can, by a card or a wink, designate to the appraiser's clerk which paokages he shall examine, the two examined will be window shades, while the others will be silks. Twenty .columns of this paper would not Buffloe to detail minutely the various modes which oorrnption in the Custom House and Internal Revenue Department assumes. The loftiest fiction ever put forth by the pen of genius was the recent statement of Mr. Bar gent, Commissioner of Customs, that the col lection of, the duties was never more honestly done than now. It was never more corrupt. In both departments the Government is losiug fifty millions a year, and the people twloe that sum, by these corruptions. What will General Grant do to check them ? We believe he will drive the thieves out of the revenue service, as he drove the cotton traders and soldier-swindlers out of his camps before Vicksburg, as Christ drove out the money-changers from the Temple. If mem bers of Grant's own family oould not trade iu cotton within his lines, we have full faith that - no leeches will suck at the publio revenues under his administration. The first eminent ptaes President Grant will display for this duty will tw rigid organization. Ther will b no more divinion of responsibilities betweeu divers officials, no that n Hi mate responsibility shall rest nowhere. We believe that Graut will appoint his Secretary of the Treasury, and hold him responsible for the fitness of all his subordinates. By a prompt and judicious system of removals in every case of failure in administration, purity and efficiency could be secured from the highest officer to the lowest. We need for this great reform first and chiefly the organizing mind and honest, firm will of Prebident Grant. l'lalolj Answered. JFiom" Brick" Pomeroy's AT. Y. Democrat. A correspondent, writing from Columbus, Ohio, aBks: "And now a few of us would like to have your opinion us to the onuses which led to our defeat, and would like tlio same in print If you have no objection to thn glvlDg it." To our friends we make this reply, believing it to be correct in faot and position: First, we had the strongest man in the country to contend against in Grant, and another strong one in Colfax, against whom the only thing to be said was that he had been a Know Nothing. But as Blair had been a Know Nothing and a Republican, the opposi tion had ns even in that. Grant was strong, lie had succeeded in leading an army to vio tory. To be sure, his victory was at a most frightful cost, but the people of America have not yet learned the true difference between a genius and a butcher, who had but to lead np men and see them shot down till the enemy gave up from exhaustion. BeBides this, Grant had been endorsed and named for the office by many Demoorats, in cluding the chairman of the Democratic Na tional Committee and his private mouth piece, lie was and is in sympathy with the Dondholders, and these people take care of their own. The Democratic campaign was badly man aged the Republican campaign was managed admirably. They ontbrained us. The Demo crats, as a general thing, believed one thing, wished for one thing, and talked another. They defended rather than attacked. The only gains made by our people were where they at tacked boldly and persistently. The holding of the convention in New York was suicidal. Scores of delegates came here with hardly money enough to last two days. The allurements of the city were too strong. They ran out of money. This is an expensive city to stay inthat is, if you would see all of it. The successful managers of that con vention wanted gold interest on bonds more than Democratio viotories, and they invested accordingly. The action of the Southern delegates hurt the Democratio cause greatly. They compli mented Johnson till they beat Pendleton, a strong man, identified with the West, whose present and future interests are with the South against New England avarice grasping ness. They played smart till they beat them selves. And their leading men, with pardons and credentials saudwiohed, talked too much. They were better warriors than politicians. They should have come np from the South like men of dignity held their peace helped their best friends, the Western men voted with their friends from natural interests, and then gone home and worked for the victory within reaoh. - It was by the Republicans made to appear to the people that the South was doing all the managing, no matter what were the real facts of the case. The Republicans had more papers, more political pulpit orators, more persistent, outrageous liars than we had, and the majority of witnesses, swearing even to a known falsehood, generally win. The result would have been different had the convention been held in the West, out of the reach of bondholders' money if there had been less talk and more work if the entire Democratio party had not been given over to the bond holders, and to men who originally wanted Grant, and who intend to go to him yet. If the delegates had acted solely for the people, for the States, for the Constitution; if they had not, to so great an extent, been willing to sell out to the very interests they were sent to fight; if brave, bold, determined, earnest Democrats, who from the first had been in favor of equal taxation and equality of States; if the management of the grand plan of the campaign had not been given so much to those who so often had sold and be trayed the Demooracy; if the fight had been from flank to flank, from right to left, by bri gades, battalions, and companies one steady, continuous, aggressive attacking of a cunning, unscrupulous, and vulnerable opposition we should have won the day. But for all thi?, we made a good fight, and by 1872 will have learned wisdom sufficient to win the fight, restore the Demooracy to power, and save the country. Mr. Fisk, Jr., Iu a New Role. From the N. Y. Times. With the most profound regard for Mr. James Fisk, Jr., that is to Bay, such regard as his publio performances warraut us in feeling for him, we feel constrained to think he has made a mistake in rushing into print. Ilia card, which we printed on Tnerday, is not cal culated to raise him in publio esteem, or to vitdicate his conduct from censure, in the arrest and treatment of Mr. Bowles. And it is quite certain to create the Impression that he knows little of Kugliah grammar, and still less of good manners or the decencies of speech and of life. Mr. Fisk, Jr., may not think very much of thi, or of any impres sions the publio may entertain in regard to him; and it his operations were to be hereafter confiued to Erie and other railroads, perhaps, he would be right. It does not make much odds to a man who bags his million as coolly and as easily as Mr. Fi.tk, Jr., has been in the habit of doing, and who jngs au editor who talks irreverently about him, without the slightest let or hindraLoi', what anybody may think of his Kuglisb. or his manners. But Mr. Fisk, Jr., is about to enter upon a new field- lly is about to become a great patron and supporter of the arts a devotee of the MuEe?--ooe of the great pillars and ornaments of the sublime temple of genius and art which his country hopes to erect for the admiration of niaokiod. Now. there is certainly a prejudice in the publio mind, which Mr. Fisk, Jr., would be wiser to respect than to ocntemn, iu favor of a great patron aud minister of art being able to write grammati cally and to express himself as well as to de port himself generally like a gentleman, rather than a bor. Mr. I'i-k's oard indicates no sort of respect for this prejudice, but rather defies and affronts it. It win, we fear, create the impression that Mr. Fisk should employ a private tutor, or in tome other way culti vate a littl- familiarity with the Euglidh gram mar ind dictionary, aud the rudiments, at least, of writiog, before presenting himself to the world as a distinguished patron of the arts. As we have already said, we see nothing of any great outrage or tyrannical wrong in the arrest of Mr. Bowles for libel. The liberties of the Ameriean people are not endangered either by the arrest iU:elf, or by the manner in which it was made; and nobody will laugh more heartily than Mr. Bowles himself at such pretensions. . We have no doubt he will forgive all that, since the publication of Mr. Fink's card, which U muck more likely to move Mm to pity and contempt thn to angr or alarm. Mr. Butler' erplnnatory letter, though it evinces a , spirit of resentment aud spleen against Mr. Bowles for which we see no o na tion or call, is a much more straightforward and creditable performance than the oard of the gentleman for whom Mr. Batler seems ambitions of acllDg as sponsor and champion. If all its statements are correct, and we pre sume they are, bis letter relieves the affilr of some of its inost unpleasant features. Mr. Fisk, Jr., would do well to band over his lite rary and artMto matters wholly to Mr. Batler, sua go back himself to his Erie corner: It U there he shines most and appears to the best advantage thonsh that, we fear, will sound like damning Mr. Fisk, Jr., with very faint praise. riscloiillural Protection. From the N. j. World. The Fish Commissioners from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connec ticut, New York, and Pennsylvania, together with sundry professional and private fish breeders and amateurs, met in convention at the Fifth Avenue Hotel on last Tuesday even ing. It may be premised that these delegates generally are gentlemen of culture beyond plsoiculture, and that they thoroughly under stand what they are talking about in this con vention. The general objeot, too, which they have in view is an interesting one to read and talk about. There is something fairly fasci nating in the unlimited piscatorial production which the fish-farmers' programme promises the aotual performance in our own day of the miracle of the five loaves and the few small fishes a thousand-fold in a thousand places. We are even told that shad, instead of being scarce, shall be so plentiful that they can be spread as manure on farms. The people are to be fed to the full with fish. The musical horn which is now blown in certain wards on Friday only shall make the whole metropolis melodious every morning in the week, and fish will be so plentiful and so cheap as to be fairly forced upon every table at every meal. Now, this piscatorial promise, which would vitally concern a oommuuity of oats, seems of very little account to the general publio. It mainly interests Mr. Seth Green and other successful pisciculturists, who have made the matter of artilloinl fish-breeding a study and decided profit, aud who should not ask State legislatures to pass laws to protect and appro priate moneys to encourage what Is a purely private enterprise. But we are told that salmon and trout are nearly out of market, and are held so highly as to be beyond the reach of all but the rich, aid that shad, which were once sold for twenty-flye cents the fish, now command one dollar. Well, what then ? Flour, which was sold not long ago for six dollars the barrel, brings sixteen dollars now, aud poultry is sold for nearly as mdoh per pound as chickens used to bring per pair. Shall we, therefore, have "protection" for the poultry-producers aud grain-raisers of the country I If M r. Seth Green or any other man can produce salmon, shad, and trout by the millions, it is clearly for his profit to do so, and that without the aid of the Government or the State. This "protection" business, after being fairly run into the ground, is now extending to the water. By-and-by the clams of Cohasset will cry out for protection; the porgies of Massachusetts Bay will ' set forth that, whereas they are iguominiously carted afield to fructify the beau crop, the porgy of San Francieco is esteemed so great a luxury as to bring twenty-five cents per pound, and pro tection will be demanded to bring the Eastern fish up to the t?an Franciscan price and standard; the Oregon and Californian salmon will protest against their own cheapness as compared with the dearness of the Maine pro duct, and call for protection. Clearly, if the Fish Commissioners can do what they say they oan do if they can fill our houses as well as our rivers with fish they should set about It. But they confess that they can not do it without legislative protection and peonniary encouragement, and the extracts which we printed on Tuesday show that with these things fish-farming is, as yet, a failure: the people will not obey the fish laws; the cor porations refuse to out holes iu their dams; the spawn put into the Connecticut river by State appropriations came to several thousand dollars, and came literally to nothing else. On the other hand, the reports of individual enterprises in piacioulture are highly favora ble; the fish-farmers raise spawn and small fry, and sell the same to "the amateurs aud others interested in pisoioulture" at a very great profit, and they do not need our advioe to keep on doing so for an indefinite period. But this business of asking "protection" by means of laws and publio money in the way of "appropriations," to carry on the fish busi ness, is wholly impolitic and certainly im- S roper, and if it is enoouraged we shall next ave the chicken-raisers of New Jersey and the bean-bakers of Massachusetts calling con ventions to demand protection. THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Its Extent, Arrangement, verniiiut, nml Nuuielliliiu About I im lSuslut-as. London Cor. Hartford (Conn.) Post. It is a great affliction to have much money. Oue never has any peace uutil he gets nd ot it. Here now thin grea; bank can hardly sleep nlpbts'lor leer somebody will be tbieviuj; IU treHHiireo. It has a company of soldiers tome down from tbe Tower of London every night to stand truard v.i:biu its walls. Aud as for tbe daylight hours, why it has its wuole force oi woik-people, 1200 s'rons, ready tolly to aims in any emergency, they being creanized and dircplincd as a military loice. aud every man kuowtng bis exact place sliould on a'arni be raised. Aud jou may iro clear atound tbat lour acres of uraritc, Hud sou caunot Und a Mugle outMiie wiudo. ft is alt wall and rioiniuc elm-. And all the way aroubd are Moues so arranged that they cau be surtdculy displaced lor tba pro'.uuon of rultjs. Aud (vbeu you are viMtiuir tbo inter. or, as you pass f'rjm room to room, bdis rn.cr and ffjards fly about until you might think tbey had taken you for a king and were paying you houor, bus that Isu't it a bit. It ii bee mso jou are probably a ihiet and will be pocketing tbousaud-pound notes or sroat bow ft gold, it yon Dave chance. And tuev never permit you to enter the vaulu where tbe bullioo is except iu tlio pieruce of a dijeclor of tbe bank. With ti. the President lpniteU went, we being a ore lliau ordinarily but-palous characters, 1 6;i,)po-e; lor while a cleigt nuii'. by virtue-of his oDke aud pre'.en eione. is under special pledges not u steal, by vuluc ol hW poverty lie is under unco aim on temptation to do It. When we went into tUo room wheie their coia and bank uotes are gathered in almost fabulous sums, the treasury, lotir men watched us, vtitb 1 no not know ho at many more hidden behind screens and door. Aud whi n the, put Into my bund n packatrj worth $5 000,000 iu gold, 1 wondered that tue entire buildup did not quake, Thoy expected me to quake, I presume, but I oldn't half as much as J do when 1 diaw my monthly talury at borne. Now, v. hat is tbe use ot bcln im mensely rich aud livlna iu perpetual conetema tion, like that great bank I would uot'ehauge places with it for tho world. The President ot the concern has a great salaiy, I was told (I whs about to put down here how much, bat do not dure trust my memory on the subicct, bat name auy figure you please and it Is mo e than tliHt), but wd at is that to iieace of mind r They bitve woultrtul balances in this bank, 'balances that know inure than men do, for In wciuhiiii! com, II any pieces moot underweight. tUe uiucuiue detects it luituwilb, aud discnaige li('nnrler-weight fu'o'" a toiv-hUcW H" if 'l.en'Milve. while th full-welglui are tout in aiiother direction. The bnntt dot; 1m o vn orlr-Unc. too, an 1 doej ii pploi didh, "mr. a. machines fur inun rtni and rtcistcrtug that can do everything except ftpeuk. Some 300,000 person po aoiuiHlly to the (onntera of this batik to receive dividends. I think tbey ouibt to rotate, and give us all one opportunity betoro we die. B it Gun. an it Is a ratbr feudal country, Sud once tn always iu weirs to b? the rnH from tbe Queen don. When thry hn l told inn their bin stories till they aw I wh in a perfectly recepuve stn' of mind, aud wide opn to anything, tbev Mid that i bey used to have tWe, in iheir ccip'oy. a man ?cven feet hieb, and that he was in eucti tear tbe anatomists would be ndcr hitnaaacuri i a ty. after his dpath, th-it he beaned to be buried In the court yard of toe batik, and was, wnirh teachei n that much height, like mueh money, or excess In any direction, is a curie, as I said before. IlcrtUevatt btitldlnir In a perfectly dazod conditicn, confused by the enormous add unac customed figures and facts which they lml dls prnted to me, perfectly turned round by the many rooms, balls, and staircases through, which I had been led, wondering how any ouo In kiigland could be poor, with such a mighty flair as that making money in full ruu all the time, (peculating a to what rank among human occupations ought in fact to be as plfned to this handling of money, and suro that my pockets were just as empty as when I went it. BLANK BOOKS. EXTllA INDUCEMENTS in BLACuK BOOKS. FOB THE KEW YE Alt. Lnrgc Assortment of Wcll-Soasoued BLANK BOOKS. Of all sizes and patterns, which are guaranteed to be of the bent quality, and at greatly reduoed pi Ices. WM. EV3. CHRISTY, THIRD Street, Above Dock tIAIES ITOlt 18Gi. l ull Assortment of Clayton's and other Celebmtul rublbhers' Make or DIARIES. JUST HECE1VED, 200 Beams of Tine Letter Paper, Belling at Keduood Fiices. HOLIDAY GOODS. Fine - Feus, Knives, rocket Books, Uold Feus, Playlug Cards, Etc. Etc., Iu great variety of btyles. WIV.. M. CHRISTY, Flank Book Manufacturer, Stationer, Printer, and Lithographer, No. 127 S. THIRD Street, 12 29 tutbaat ABOVE DOCK. GENT.'S FURNISHING GOODS. Q Ft E AT REDUCTION. Preparatory to taking account, of stock Janu aiy 1, we wul, unlit Uiut date, oiter our lare atock of hex's ruitxismriG goods Greatly Below Usual Prices, Aa we have, In addition to a complete assort ment ot Shirts, Underwear, and Hosiery, An eletaiit variety of Fancy UoixU, compris ing Beans. Ties, Gloves, Cardigan Jackets, una otner requisites lor gentlemen, wltu a rluu btock of WUAPPKItS AND BUEAKFAST COATS. . This will all'ord an oppoi miiliy fur procuring Holiday Presents at Moderate Prices. WIXClIESrfEll A CO., 12 10 thBtn t!2 31 fto, 7QO Oil i:s. u r HI. E G II L E M A U 1JKOTHEU8 WILL OPEN A NEW BTOCK OP Men's Furnishing Goods, AT No. 1004 CHESNUT Street- ON DLCEJIltEK 13. Belling off Old Stock at UlUuirp SEVENTH AND CIIESNUT STREETS. H. 8. K. C. Harris' Seamless Kid Gloves. EVKUX FAIH W1BU1NTEI), ' aaccLoisiva auk-nth iron oents- OLovia l. W. SCOTT & CO., t zv 5. p jp AT EN I BIIOULDEU.SEAM i SHIRT MANUFACTORY, AND GENTLEMEN'S FURNISHING (STORE. JP1KFKCT FITTING SHIIUB AND DftaWElid lukiiH uoin ujf.urf meni .1 vxry tlinrt ii':o. i All uLiitr r'ici- ot Ok iXtMaJS't DKKbS uooDb lit fall v.ritty. WINCHESTER & CO., 11 1 S u,7i l UEsAUr Street. 212 220 S. FP.OKT ST. 4 213 220 ! S. FRONT ST CO OFFER TO TIU TRAUB, IN WT&, . FIXE UYE AM) BOUItBON WHISKIES, 1 BOH Ol 1HOO, 1800, 1807, ELiil l4ve. J ALSO, FKEE FIRE RYE AXD BOIRIM WHISKIES, Of GREAT AGE, ranging from 1SG4 to 184S. JUbar&l contract! will b mcrtd into for lot, tn bond at IlcUUrr,o!UUa jraura' mMnnJnctartj JEWELRY, SILVERWARE, ETC. C. k A. TEQUIGNOT, M N CF ACTCBER3 OF WY T C II CASES, And Dealers In American and Imported WATCHES, No. 13 South SIXTH Street, 121 tfrp Manufactory, Ko. 22 FIFTH St. ESTABLISHED 1820. - i 7) ESTABLISH nOI.IOAY PBESEXTlt WATCIIEB, JEWELRY, CLUCKS, SILVERWARE, aud FANCY OOOD3, a. W. RUSSELL, Ko. 22 NORTH SIXTH STREET, PIULADKLFUIA. A WARDEN. S. E. Corner FIFTH and CHESSUT Sts., PREVIOUS TO REMOVAL TO ko. 1029 ciir.isxirr ntkeet, OFFERS FOR THE HOLIDAYS A LARGE AND VARIED ASSORTMENT OF Gold and Silver Watches, Fine Jewelry, Sterling Silver Ware, TlatcdWare, Etc. Etc., SUITABLE FOR BOLlDAY OIFTS, at tub riaslmrp JLOWESjT TOSSIlitE 116 ICES. E. p. AD A i n tLate of the firm or Smyth & Adair, No. 1128 Che uut aireei), MANUFACTURER OF SILVER PLATID WARE, Xo. 131 S. ELEVENTH St., 12 17 13trp PHILADELPHIA HOLIDAY PRESENTS. JACOB H A It L K Y JEffKLLKB, 12 1 Imrp No. 633 MARKET Street. HOLIDAY GOODS. jfOLIDAY AND WEDDING PRESENTS. 4 WILSON & STELLWAGEN, No. 1028 CHESNUT STREET, PHILADELPHIA. WATCHES. JEWELRY, DIAMONDS, BRIDAL SILVER, MUSICAL BOXES, AND FINE FRENCH CLOCKS. All of which we are offering AT REDUCED RATES. 12 17 lit HOLIDAY GOODS. EDWARD CHRIST MANN OFFERS A LARGE VARIETY OF FANCY AHTICLEci, DRESSING CAS P 8, PERFUMERY, TOILET REQUISITES, CUTLERY, ETC. ETC. ALL AT THE LOWEST PRlOHS. EDWARD CIIR ISTMANN, 12 16Htrp Ko. 703 CllESXUr Street. DRUGS, PAINTS, ETC. J ROBERT SHOEMAKER & CO., N.E. Corner of FOURTH and BACii Sts., PHILADELPHIA, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS. LMPORTERH AND MANUFACTURERS Ot W bite Lead and Colored 1'aiuts, I'nttj Tarnishes, Etc AGENTS FOB THI CELEBRATED FKEM'U Z1K0 PALM'S. " UELKRH AND CONSUMERS SUPPLIED Al LOW EbT PRICES FOR GASH. 1216 LEGAL NOTICES. TN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR TOE CIT5T X AMI vOl'NTV u PHILADELPHIA. Ko'l ATE OF JOH -N HULK. TbA widow ol said decedent, FKANCldOES HOCKi l)a tiled ber pniHIou wli.li appralieiueut of persoual p-oi erty to llie amount of iu wlilcli stie elect to ruiaiu ouder lht aot ol April 14 1H51, etc.. and ttiat U e mine win be appioved by the Oeurt ou H aTU It DAY, Jauuary y, lttau uulesi wxcepilons b. tiled thereto. TUO M Ad J. CLAY (UN, 13 'i tbotu 5t Attorney lur i'eiliiouer. TN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY JL AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA. Estate or WILLIAM KiUKH, decerned. The Auditor appolu.ed by tbe Court to audit, asttle, aud adjust the account or UEOltuE W, FltaN&a ud JOSEPH B. HUREHtt, Kircuitri o( the Estate of WILLIAM EAtiEtt, deceased, aud to report dis tribution ot the balanue In the band of tbe a-count-.nt. will inept Lha tutrituM IrtHreiited. tor the DuruoMA of bis appointment, on tli)DV, January i, A. D. imih. at iOTiucK r, h., urn vfiui;-, u. o walr UT htreet. lu the City of Phllddelptit. U 24thtu6t WILLIAM D. BAKER, Auditor. TN THE ORPHANS' COURT FOR THE CITY X AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA. Eblate ot JOSEPH and TtLUM.AH WOOD, tfe- ; censed. The Auditor appointed by the Court to audit, settle, and udjuht tbe acuouul of THOA1 AS a. aud JOSEPH vVCiOD, surviving aJmlulotrator. of tbe es'a.eot JONEPH WOOD, deceastd, aud of MARIA WOOD fcrd i IlOMAH H WOOD, administrators of estate of TiiOMAB WOOD, deieaed, aotlng agents tor the hx'iHof Bold estutes, aud to report distribution ol the Ijulftuue lu tbe httntin of the accountant, will meet the purtite Interest.), for the purposes of his appolut Ineul. on MOM DAY, Januar y 4, A . 1). 1SIIK, at eleven (ill o't'lork A. M.. at the olliue o' Wood's iCottle.Mo. 18 H. ' 111 KU Htree', In tiie city ol 1'iillHdolphta. lit thatuW WILLIAM D, BAKER, Auditor. pHANDY, WHISKY, WINE, ETCj Y. P. M. Y. P. M YOCIVCI'M PURR MALT WHISK T. TOBIie'lt IT UK HALT WHISHT. TOI'KIIS PKBr HALT nrnmuv Tbtre fci noqneetlon relative to tbs an er Its of the celebrated Y. P. M. it is the inr(st quality of WhiaayJ manufactured from tbe best gritln atlorded by the Philadelphia market arid It Is sold at the 6 per gallon, or AIM ptrqnart, at tbe salesrooms, Ko. 700 rASSil.NK KOAl), UI2p PHILADELPHIA. QAR6TAIR8 & McCALL. Nos. 126 WAXKUT and 21 UIULNITE St IMPORTERS OP Brandies, Wines, tiln, Olire Oil, Etc Et AMD COMMISSION MEHOHANl'ti OR THE BALE Ot PCEE OLD HIE, WHEAT, AAD HOCK. HOA WHISKIES. tm ON01VIA WINE COMPANY Established lor the sale of Puro California Wines. This Company oiler lor sale pure California Wings. Will I A' Al AWIIA, MlfrltKY, A&U1X11A i, a lit: r, ...... . . 91 1 SI' lTEI.. CllAJiAMGAE, PlUi: (JltAl E II HANDY, Wholesale and reiall, au ol tnlr own arowlnt anrt g,aimU 10 0UUl'U "Ht the pVo juloSol the Depot. No. 19 B NK Street, Philadelphia. HaHN A QUA 1 N , A g nis? """""" l2Vf HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. 405 CKE8PIUT STREET--! OLD KYK HOTEL. LUNCH OP VEBI&ON. and other Game la Season, every duj from io to 12 M. 12 91m ROBZRT BLACK. RIDDLE TEMPLE HOTXI, AND KESTAUKANT, Ko. 110 South SIXTH Street. 12 9lm H. REINIIARD, Proprietor. Q.E0 11UE ZIELLBY, Formerly Fitzwater & Zlelley, Filbert street, above Eighth street, bas opened tbe old Btund, fl. W. COU. TU1HU AND WOOD ST3., wneio uo wiu ue gtuu to see uts menus. 12 11 lm GEOKUE ZIELLEY. STOVES, RANGES, ETC X J U AlC Vj.lllCi UNDERSIGNED J would call tbe attention of tbe publio to bis NEW l OLD JIN EAGLE EURNAOK. This Is an eutirolv iinur Iikhiup iiiam (tructed as to atoncecommeudiunlt to general favor, being a combination of wrought ad coat Iron. It la very simple In its construction, aud la perleotly air tight; selj-cleanlng. havlngjuo I lpes or drums lu be taken ont and clt-aned. It Ii so arranged with upright Hues aa to produce a larger amount of beat from the same weight ol coal than auy turn ace now In use. Tbe bygiomello condition ol the air as produced by my new arracgemtot ol evaporation will at once d tnonitrale that It is tle ouly Hot Air Furuace that will produce a perefctly heauby atmosphere. TLose lu wantot a complete .Healing Apparatus Would do well to call and eauilue theUulden Kuala. CUARLErt WlLLIAMaT Vfc: 1182 auu US MARK KT CUrest, w. - Philadelphia. A large assortment ot Cooking Ranges, Plre-board Stoves, Low Down Orates, Veutllators, etc. always a bald. N. B. Jobbing of all kinds promptly done. 6 10 GROCERIES, ETC. pRIME LAGUAYKA, OLD GOVERNMENT JAVA, CHOICE MOI'IU, and AFRICAN COFFEES ON SALE AT Fairtlioriic'a Tea lVurcIiou.se, Koh. SOS Aorlh NINTH aud 103U M All litT Mrrrt, 12 21 til Ner Bingham Hotel. JTKESII FRUITS & PRESERVES. Bunch, Layer, heedless, aud Saltans tta'alns; Our janu, Citron, Orat.gts, Fronts, Figs, etc. Evo y de scrlpllon ol Groceries, suitable for the lIollds. ALHEBT C. KUBKUTS, 11 7rp Oct. ELEVENTH and VINE Streets, CHFtOMO-LITHOGRAPHS. piCTTJRLS FOR PRESENTS. A. Sr, U Oil IAS OA, No. Ulu CHEsNU f Sirwl, lias Just rec'ltd exqulsTie specimens ol bUn A CLE EOlt llULiAJAY Ultfjo. LilT. 1'ISE DRESDEN ' EN A VI ELH" ON PORCELAIN. In .real variety. fcPLENDID FINTkD PUOTOURAPHS, ILcludais a nuiuber oi chuice geuis. A fcUFElK LINE OF CUROAIO. A lnrke asucrtiiu nt ot NH ENUKAVINO''. Etc. AIm, KKIi a I'll. a FRAJuLn, ol ekvuul utv lulli rtis. s a Ciobn zc Hanoi J BAH MANUFACTORY. JUIIK 1', UAUaT N, . corcer oi MARKET aud WaTKK htroew 1 hiiadoipbia. OKALEKr? IN B AIM ANII BACMilM Ol every di-utrlptlou, fr Uraln, Flour, ba't. butwr-Phimphaie of LUue. Rous lU6t, Et Larga aud sc.all i'USNV IiAHH ennstantl, on:bat4 ' Wl AJm). WOOL HAChkL COTTKN AND FIAX, J . bAlL hl't'K AND CANVAS, Ol au uuu.c.h aud iirud , Tent, A nli't. 1 nink, and Wwjiiu iovr lmok, AliK), l'l.per JI.MiI.i'tu ers' Drlur 1'nlui, fro u on to teveial leet cv; fmlmr. 11-U'mt hal1 wlne.eio Ji.UN W. 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