THE DAILY EVENING TELEGRAPH PII IL A DELPHI A, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1870. FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Ill nertlrnitornl Ilall Upcec), Reported by Himself Tbe llknrehee and Wlitery lite., Etc. The IVm of the 30th lost, publishes the following letter from Frederick Douglass: Some one has just now kindly fayored aie with a copy of your paper of the 19th, m taining an account of a somewhat extnijivli nnry meeting held in Sixth-street Bulhel Church, Philadelphia. The special object of this meeting seems to have been to " arraign, try, and condemn " me for the utterance of ' dangerous sentiments " on the occasion of the recent celebration of the fifteenth amend ment in your city. Trials for heresy in our day and cor ntry, where liberty of thought and speech i n con ceded to the humblest member of society, are usually deemed farcial, if not harmless. It was once, indeed, a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Church. History proves that there is no malioe or cruelty so bitter nnd unrelenting nsthat malice and cruelty which clothes itself in saintly robes, and professes to be "contending for the faith once deliv ered to the saints. ' A few centuries ago the weapons of religion against heresy were car nal enough. "Cord and steel," "fire and eword," "halter and rack," were the chosen instruments. Thanks not to faith, but to the enlightenment of the age and the growth of rational ideas among men, to differ with the Church to-day does not bring torture and physical death. The worst that bigotry can now do is to assail reputation and fiil the months of the vulgar crowd with meaningless epithets. There is no doubt that religious malice is the same to-day as three hundred years ago. It would bite, sting, and devour now ns then, if it only had the power. It would crush living flesh to-day with the same sanctimonious ferocity nn it does reputation. The will to do is manifest, the power only is wanting. The Church and the street are about the Bame in point of authority and in point of excellence. Both are ever on the side of popular wrong, and both are against unpopular right. The condemnations, male dictions, and denunciations of the Church, whether Bethel or St. Peter's, to the outside world, have no more significance than the vulgar curses of the crowd. It may be said of Bethel as of other religious bodies, they are "nought but men and women," and no wiser or better than other men and women. Be it remembered that the "dangerous sen timents" for which I have been thus formally condemned were uttered in a speech delivered under serious disadvantages for accuracy of statement and completeness of argument. It was an impromptu speech, delivered at the call of the assemblage, upon the spur of the moment, amid the heat and excitement of an enthusiastic meeting, after a particularly fatiguing day of publio parade. I have no report of that speech now before me, and cannot say with certainty whether the word employed fitly expressed my thoughts and Bentiments or not. Let it also be remembered that whatever may have been the language employed, or whatever may have been my manner of utter ance on that interesting occasion, I did not assume to speak for any class, sect, or party, and certainly not for Bethel Church. I Rpoke for myself, and for nobody else. It is, there fore, difficult to perceive any special reason why the preachers of Bethel should lead olf in the war upon my "dangerous sentiments." I atn not a member of that church, and never was. Why, then, should they disclaim my views, and denounce me personally in solemn meeting? The views and sentiments of that church, right or wrong, upon the whole sub ject of the special interposition of Divine Providence are well known. Nothing that I said was likely to cast the least doubt upon - the theological soundness of my Bethel brethren. That church has never been noted for heresy; for heresy implies thought, in quiry, and reflection. The members of that ministry walk scrupulously in the old clothe3 of Methodist theology of a half century ago, and indulge in the same wild worship. Their thoughts, like their clothes, are after the most ancient pattern, and they abhor nothing more than they abhor innovation. In so far as the proceedings of that condemnation meeting of theirs pretended to a laudable desire to set that church right before the public, it was hypocritical or stupid, or both. The position of that church was in no way compromised by my speech. If Bishop Campbell, the instigator of this sham trial (a man whose history I have known during more than thirty years), in place of getting up these church meetings to try dis tant heretics like myself, would honestly go to work and endeavor to reform the charac ter, manners, and habits of the festering thousands of colored people who live in the utmost misery and destitution in the imme diate vicinity of Big Bethel, he would do more to prove his church sound than by passing any number of wordy resolutions about thanking God. It was always more common to meet with men who would pro fess love to Qod whom they have not seen than to show love to man whom they hate seen. For many reasons the denunciations of these Bethel brethren touch me nowhere. So far as their proceedings in my case have taken the form of a publio trial for heresy, they have no claim to any respect or defer ence from me or from anybody else. Besides destitution of jurisdiction, they are worth less, because ex parte, indefinite, illogical, and unfair. Everybody knows how easy it is to prove a man guilty of uttering dangerous sentiments. You have only to pick out a sen tence here, another there, wrest this part from that, and break up the logical connec tion of all its parts with the whole, and your case to the unreflecting and unskilled is made out. Let no one, however, who heard me on the occasion in question, suppose from these re marks that I shrink from any just responsi bility or criticism on account of that speeoh. As I now remember it, I stand by every position taken in it. Single words may be at fault, but the substance and philosophy of that speech I am perfectly willing to defend, even against Bishop Campbell, whenever I can do so on equal terms. I will not, of course, consent to be arraigned at the altar of Bethel, where he is high priest, and is surrounded by men who will groan and say amen at his bidding, but in any publio hall, unpacked by his particular friends, before an impartial audience, I am perfectly willing to meet him in defense of the "dangerous senti ments" alleged to have been uttered by ma. For the time being, suffice it to notiue what was really taught in that speech. With out consulting the confused, incoherent, il- logieal, and strangely-worded resolutions, so characteristic of Bethel, by whioh the at tempt is made to degrade me anion at the col ored people, I will here give the substance of what I id say on the evening of the 2'Hh of April, in Horticultural Hall, and which I take to be the very neaa and iiont or my offend' inc. I regarded, received, and treated the deliv erance of the colored people of this country j rom ponaage, tneir elevation to citizenship, and their subsequent enfranchisement under the fifteenth amendment, not as a miraclo, nor due to any special interposition of Divine Providenoe, but as resulting from the certain operation of natural causes inherent in the very constitution of human nature. As slavery was created, by human selfishness, so slavery was abolished by human justice, wisdom, and benevolence. Such was my view, and such is the "dangerous senti ment" to which I gave utteranoe. Had I come out with some "ram's horn story," some dream or vision, or presumptuous assertion as to the ways of Divine Providenoe, about which men speculate forever and settle nothing, I might have escaped the censures of my Bethel brothers and perhaps passed along for a very pious man. If I had Raid that Qod had abolished slovt ry in answer to the prayers of the American Church and pulpit, a body which has done more to protect slavery and give it respectability than all other influences combined; if I had said that foremost among the instrumentalities which gave liberty to the American bondman were the sermons and prayers of "Big Bethel," a church which closed its doors against abolition in the hour of its cxtreniest need, I should have spoken against fact, but should have re ceived a cheering amen from Bishop Camp bell. I, however, professed no know ledge of the agency of prayer in the great revolution which has taken place, but spoke simply of the natural moral forces of human society, and their tendeney to the noble, the true, and the good. I spoke only as a re former, understanding the wisdom of adapt ing means to ends, and believing if this sin cursed earth is ever to be made better, it is to be made so by faithful exertion and wise application of human energies. Moral, not less than physical evils, are under the control of man. When anything is to be done in this world, some denizen of this world has got to do it, or it will go undone. We are under inexorable law, unchangeable and eter nal, and "whatever a man soweth that shall he reap." The American people vitiated the laws of justice, love, and liberty, and in due time that law, written in the human soul, vindicated itself through war, blood, and pestilence. But why could I not join in the loud hal lelujahs and thanksgiving on the 2th of April, and thus have escaped the dreadful censures which have since been heaped upoti me? I will tell you. Because I would not stultify myself. During the forty years of moral effort to overthrow slavery in this country, that system, with all its hell-black horrors and crimes, found no more secure shelter anywhere than amid the popular rc lious cant of the day. One honest Abolition ist was a greater terror to slaveholders than whole acres of camp-meeting preachers shout ing glory to God. Years ago, when denouncing the pro slavery attitude of the Church (and Bethel among the rest, for it too was in the South, preaching "Servants, obey your masters"), it was predicted that the day would come when the churches of this country would claim the honor of abolishing slavery. They already do so. Knowing their time-serving and cowardly subserviencp to slavery, and know ing Bethel to be like unto the rest, I could give no countenance to its pretensions. Hence I declared what I believe the literal truth, that the abolition of slavery is due to natural causes. Again, if we may venture upon such a oues- tion; admit, if we must, that God abolished slavery and we must coneede that He did that work only as He does all things else one act of His must be esteemed to be as v ise and as beneficial as another. A finite creature has no right to discriminate between the acts of an infinite God. Do not all His acts accord with an infinite purpose? And is not this purpose eternally right? Who shall thereforo sit in judgment upon the works of God? Unless we are prepared for this, have we not the same duty to thank God for slavery as for the abolition of slavery? Our divines, JNortn ana boutn, a few years ago told us that slavery was of Divine appoint ment. Did "Big Bethel" then thank God for slavery? Did she call upon the slave in his chains to praise the Lord for the bloody lash mat tore nis quivering nesn.-' Whv not. if God established slavery? If we assume to thank God for one of His acts wo must thank Him for all. . ... Very evidently, Mr. Editor, mv Bethel brethren have opened up a large subject, far too large, I fear, for the limits of your paper, it not lor tne limits ot uetnel intellect and theological learning. Being no theologian myBelf, I cqnfine my publio utterances to things more comprehensible. When a wrong thing has been done I know that men have done it, and that somebody is to blame for it. I know, too, that when a right thing has been done somebody has done it somebody to whom praise and blame are of some conse quence, and that awarding or withholding it may in some degree affect the conduct of other responsible beings for good. The way is clear to do this, since it is natural, and in volves no doubt, darkness, nor contradiction. If I am wrong in all this, I shall be very glad to be set right, and will even return thanks to niy Bethel brethren for enlightenment. But I warn them that hard names, threats, and denunciations, even though they should drive me outside their ranks, and take from me the title of "leader" of the colored people, a title I never assumed, and do not claim, will only leave me just where I am. The second offense for which I am held guilty and condemned is that, in the speech delivered at Horticultural Hall, I held that it was unwise to insist upon the reading of the Bible in the common schools of this coun try, and contended for the most complete separation of Church and State aa the true course of safety, both for the Church and for the State. My third offense, as stated by my friend Mr. Wear, is that I contended for the right of colored citizens to "vote as they please; ' that each citizen must decide for himself what men and what measures will best subserve the publio good, and that no violence or coer cion should receive any countenance among the newly-emancipated and newly enfran chised class. These three points contain about all the grounds of difference between my Bethel critics and myself; they contain all the "dan gerous sentinents" I uttered ou the ocoasion referred to. I beg to state, in conclusion, that while I have no talent for controversy. and have quite enough to do in battling for our common rights against prejudice and proscription, without engaging in debate with Bibhop Campbell, the chief instigator of these proceedings against me, I offer to meet that gentleman in any publio hall in Phila delphia upon ''equal terms,'' hereafter to be agreed upon, for a full and fair discussion of any one or all of the points above stated, and assure him in advance that I hold no opin ions which I am not ready to abandon wneu convinced of their unsoundness. Kespect. fully yours, Frederick Douqlabs. ONE DOLLAR GOODS FOR 95 CENTS, 1 lUtuil JlAO'B,No. D B. KlQUTa lire CITY ORDINANCES. AN ORDINANCE To Authorize the Construction of a Certain Sewer. Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the City of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Department of Highways be ana is hereby authorized to construct the following tewers, viz.: On tbe line of Franklin etreettrom the rewer at Oxford street, to the south curb-line of Columbia avenue, with a clear inside diameter of three feet and with one manhole; said sewer to be built of brick, circular in shape, and in ac cordance with specifications prepared by the Chief Engineer and Surveyor. Section 2. The Chief Commissioner of High ways shall advertise according to law, an nouncing that bida will bo received for the sewers above designated, and ho shall allot it to the lowest bidders, and it shall be a condi tion of said contract that the contractor shall accept the sums assessed upon and charged to tbe properties lylns on the lines of said sewer in manner and form authorized by ordinance en titled "An ordinance regulating the assessment upon property for the construction of branch culverts or drains," approved May 12, lMl, and supplement thereto, approved February 10, ISO'J; any excess over and above said assessment to be charged to item (for branch sewers) of annual appropriations made to the Department of High ways for the year 1870. Provided Faid excess shall not in any case be more than can be charged to said item under ordinance entitled "An ordinance authorizing the Chief Commissioner of Highways to draw warrants for street intersections, manholes, and legal deductions In the construction of branch sewers," approved April 3, 1808. LOUIS WAGNER, President of Common Council. Attest . John Eckstein, Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this twenty-eighth dayof May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy (A. D. 1870). DANIEL M. FOX, 5 31 It Ma3'or of Philadelphia. T ESOLUTION Of Instruction to the City Treasurer. Whereas, An ordinance was approved on the twenty seventh day of November, A. D. 180U, authorizing the seal of the city to be affixed to a deed of conveyance of the Monroe Grammar School building and lot of grouud appurtenant thereto upon which the same is erected, pursu ant to the provisions of an act of Assembly en titled "An act to authorize the Controllers of the First School District of Pennsylvania to sell certain real estate," approved May 1, 1861. And whereas, The Controllers of the Public Schools did, on the twentj'-seventh day of April, A. D. 1870, expose to sale and sell the said property to Lewis Thompson & Co., for the price or sum of nineteen thousand and five hun dred dollars, subject to a yearly ground rcut of one hundred and sixty dollars silver money, and also upon the condition that possession bo given within eighteen months of execution of deed, ihe city of Philadelphia, in the meantime, to pay all taxes, water rents, ground rents, and interest on purchase money. And whereas, The deed for said premises has been prepared and is about being executed by the Mayor, and the purchase money paid into the City Treasury; it is therefore Resolved, Iiy the Select and Common Councils of the city of Philadelphia, That the City Treasurer be directed to receive said purchase money and invest the 6ame in "City Sixes," paying not less than six per cent, per annum, said interest to be applied to the paying of the rental named in this agreement. LOUIS WAGNER, President of Common Council. Attest John Eckstein, Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this twenty-eighth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight huudred and seventy (A. D. 1870). DANIEL M. FOX, 5 31 It Mayor of Philadelphia. AN ORDINANCE To make an Appropriation for the Pay ment of the Damages caused by the opening of Bridge street, from Lancaster avenue to For- tiotli Etreet Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the city of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of twenty thousand three huudred dollars is hereby appropriated to pay the property owners throunh and over whose premises Bridge street, In the Twenty-fourth ward, passes, the amounts of damages awarded to them respec tively by the report of the jury of damages filed March 11, 1870, and duly confirmed May 10, 1870, by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the city and county ol Philadelphia, with lawful interest; and the City Solicitor is hereby autho rized to draw warrants in favor of the said property owners or their lawful attorney of record for the amounts respectively awarded to them as aforesaid, with lawful interest and cost, and the balance, if any, of the said appro priation, which shall not be needed far the above-mentioned purposes, shall merge. LOUIS WAGNER, President of Common Council. Attest John Eckstein, Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this twenty-eighth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy (A. D. 1870). DANIEL M. FOX, 5 31 It Mayor of Philadelphia. AN ORDINANCE To Make an Appropriation for Expenses of tbe Public Buildings Commission, and for Repairs to the City Controller's Olilce. Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of the cltv of Philadelphia do ordain, That the sum of six hundred and sixty-five dollars and fifty-seven cents be and the same la hereby ap propriated for the following purposes, viz.: Item 1. For paying outstanding bills of the Public Buildings Commission, two hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty-seven cents. Item 2. For paper, carpet, etc., In the room of te City Controller's Department, four hun dred and fifty dollars. And warrants for Item 1 shall be drawn by tbe Commissioners for the Erection of Public Buildings; and warrants for Item 2 by the City Controller. LOUIS WAGNER, President of Common Council. Attest Abraham Stewart, Assistant Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this twenty-eighth day of May, Anno Domino one thousand eight hundred and seventy (A. D. 1870). DANIEL M. FOX, 5 31 It Mayor of Philadelphia. RESOLUTION To enter satisfaction upon the Official Bond of John E. Addicks, Health Otlicer. Resolved. Bv the Select and Common Coun cils of the City of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor be and ia hereby authorized and di rected to enter satisfaction upon the otlleial bond of John E. Addicks, Health Officer (L). C. D. 8. B., June Term, 1809, No. 050.) Provided that the City Controller shall first certify that his accounts are settled, and there Is no default. LOUIS WAGNER, President of Commou Council. Attest Auraham Stewart, Assistant Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this twenty-eighth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy (a. D. 1870). DANIEL M. FOX, 6 31 11 Mayor vf Pniladelphla. OITY ORDINANCES. RESOLUTION To Release Certain Propartles of John D. McBride from tbe Lien of a Certain Judgment. Recolved, Bv the Select and Common Coun cils of the City of Philadelphia, That the City Solicitor is hereby authorized and directed to release from the lien of the judgment en tered on the official bond of Robert McBride, Collector of Outstanding Tnxcs, the following described properties, viz.: All that certain lot or piece of ground situate on the east side ot Twenty-first street, fifty-one feet southward from the south side of Filbert street, containing in front on Tweuty-flrst etrcct sixteen feet, and extending In depth sixty-three feet six Inches. Also, all that certain lot or piece of ground situate on the cast side of Twenty-first street, sixiy-feven feet southward from the sonth side of Filbert, containing In front sixteen feet and extending In depth sixty-three feet six Inches: Provided, That his co-sureties consent thereto, and that the said John D. McBride shall pay to the City Solicitor, for the use of the city, the sum of ten dollars to pay for the pub lication of this resolution; and provided also, That in the opinion of the City Solicitor the interests of the city will not be "prejudiced by said release. LOUIS WAGNER, President of Common Council. Attest Amiauam Stewart, Assistant Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this twenty-eighth day of May, Anne Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy (A. D. 1870). DANIEL M. FOX, 5 31 It Mayor of Philadelphia. A FURTHER SUPPLEMENT Explanatory of an Ordinance Entitled "An Ordinance to Create a Loan for the Further Extension of the Philadelphia Gas Works," approved the twenty-sixth day of December, A. D. 1808. Section 1. The Select nnd Common Councils of the City of Phildelphia do ordain, That the third section of the ordinance to which this Is a supplement be altered and amended by Inserting after tho words "amount of said loan" the words "and a sum sufficient to pay the State taxes on said loan," and by striking out the words "three per cer.tum thereof to the payment of the interest of the said loan" and inserting the words "a sufficient sum thereof to the payment of the interest of the said loan and the State taxes thereon," and by striking out the words "remaining one per centum," and inserting the words "balance thereof." LOUIS WAGNER, President of Common Couucil. Attest John Eckstein, Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this twenty-sxlth day of May, Anne Domini one thoujand eight hundred and seventy (A. D. 1S70). DANIEL M. FOX, 5 31 It Mayor of Philadelphia. T ESOLUTION To authorize the Grading of Clearfield Tioga, Twentieth, Thirty-second, and Locust streets. Resolved, By the Select and Common Coun cils of the City of Philadelphia, That tho De partment of Highways be and 13 hereby autho rized and directed to grade Clearfield street, from Richmond Etreet to Frankford road, for the sum of eight hundred and seventy-one dol lars and fifty cents; Jloga street, Irom Seventh to Tenth street, for tho sum of fifteen hundred and thirty-two dollars and ninety cents; Twen tieth street, from Federal to Wharton street, for thegsura of five hundred and eighty-five dol lars; Thirty-second street, from Thompson to Jefferson Etreet, for the sum of four thousand dollars; Locust street, from Woodland to For tieth street, for the sum of six hundred and fifty dollars. All of the said streets to be graded t the established grade of tho citv. LOUIS WAGNER, President of Common Council. Attest- Adhaham Stewart, Asbistant Clerk of Common Council, SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this twenty-eighth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy (A. D. 1870). DANIEL M. FOX, 5 31 It ' Mayor of Philadelphia. T ESOLUTION To Locate a Fire Alarm Box in the Office of the Fire Association. Resolved, By tho Select and Common Coun cils of the City of Philadelphia, That the Superintendent of the Police and Fire Alarm Telegraph be and is hereby authorized and directed to place a Fire Alarm Telegraph Box In the office of the Fire Association, southwest corner of Fifth and North streets, the same to be done without any expense to tho city. Pro vided, The said Fire Association pay to the City Treasurer the sum of twenty-five dollars to defray the cost of advertising this resolution. LOUIS WAGNER, President of Common Council. Attest Abraham Stewart, Assistant Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this twenty-eighth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy (A. D. 1870). DANIEL M. FOX, 5 31 It Mayor of Philadelphia. R ESOLUTION To Authorize the Tramwaylng of Cowley Street, Tenth Ward. Resolved, By the 8elect and Common Councils of .the Citv of Philadelphia, That the Com mittee ou Highways be and are hereby autho rized and directed to repave Cowley street, from Thirteenth to Juniper street, in the Tenth ward, said repavlng to be done with tramway stone in the tracks of tbe wheels, and if the cartway is wider than necessary for a single track, he is authorized to reduce it to the proper width by taking an equal quantity from each side. LOUIS WAGNER, President of Common Couucil. Attest John Eckstein, Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved thlstwenty-eighthdayof May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred aud seventy (A. D. 1870). DANIEL M. FOX, 5 31 It Mayor of Philadelphia. T ESOLUTION To Authorize the Opening of Oakford and Markle Streets. Resolved, By tho Select and Common Coun cils tf the City of Philadelphia. That tho Chief Commissioner of Highways be and he is hereby authorized and directed to notify owners of pro perty through and over which Oakford street, from Tweuty-seventh to Twenty-eighth street, in the Twenty-sixth ward, Markle (late John) street, from Cresson street to Manayuuk avenue, in the Twenty-first ward, will pass, that at the expiration of three months from tho date of said notice said streets will be required for public use. LOUIS WAGNER, President of Common Couucil. Attest John Eckstein, Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this tweuty-eighth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight huudred and seventy (A. D. 1870). DANIEL M. FOX. 5 31 It Mayor of Philadelphia. OITY ORDINANCES. AN ORDINANCE To Divide the Eighth Election Division of the Twenty-first Ward and to Make Two New Divisions therein. Section 1. The Select and Common Councils of tbe City of Philadelphia do ordain, That the Eighth Election division of the Twenty-first ward shall be divided Into three election divi sions, to be railed the Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth divisions. The Eighth Election division shall be bounded as follows, viz.: Beginning at tho corner of Domino lane and the river Schuylkill; thence by the south side of Domiuo lane to the Ridge turnpike; thence by the west side of said turnpike to Hermit's lane: thence by said Her mit's lane to tbe lino of the late borough of Mannyunk; thenco by the line of said late bo rough of Manaynnk to the place of beginning; and to vote at the store of Wvatt fc Lackey, southeast corner of Ridge turnpike and Green lane. The Ninth division shall be bounded as fol lows: Commencing at the northeast corner of Crease's lane and Ridge avenue; thenco by said Crease's lane to the Township line road; thence byj said township Hue to Rittenhouso street; thence by tho west side of said Rittenhouse street to the Wissahickon tnrnpikc; thenco by the west side of said turnpike to Hermit's lane; thence by the north side of said lane to the Ridge turnpike; thence by tbe east of said turn pike to tho place of beginning; and said divi sion shall vote at the Lyceum Ilall, In said di vision. The Tenth division shall be bounded as fol lows: Commencing at the corner of Ridge avenue and Hermit s lane: thence by tho south side of said lane to the Wissahickon turnpike; thence by the south side of paid turnpike to Rittenhouse street; thence by the south side of said street to tho township line road; thence by the west side of said township line road to School lane; thenco by the north side of School lane to the river Schuylkill: thence by the said river Schuylkill to the line of the old borough of Manaynnk; thence by said old line to where it strikes Hermit's lane; thence by the east side of Hermit's lane to the Ridge turnpike, the place of beginning; and said division shall vote at the hotel of Charles Tolan, at tho junction of the Ridge and Manayunk turnpike, in said division. LOUIS WAGNER, President of Common Couucil. Attest John Eckstein, Clerk of Common Council. 8AMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Couucil. Approved this twenty-eighth day of May, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy (A. D. 1870). DANIEL M. FOX, 5 31 It Mayor of Philadelphia. RESOLUTION To Authorize the Macadamizing of Pas syimk Road. " Resolved, By tho Select and Common Coun cils of tho city of Philadelphia, That the De partment of Highways be and is hereby author ized and directed to macadamize Passyunk road from Broad street to Point Breeze. Said macadamizing shall be at least eighteen inches in depth, and the cost of the same shall be as sessed against the property on the lino of said road, except for intersections, which shall be paid for by the city, to be taken out of item live for the repairs of roads, as per act of Assembly, approved April sixth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine; and the Chief Commissioner Is hereby authorized aud directed to advertise for proposals for tho macadamizing, the same to be allotted to the lowest bidder. LOUIS WAGNER, President of Common Council. Attest John Eckstein, Clerk of Common Council. SAMUEL W. CATTELL, President of Select Council. Approved this twenty-eichth day of May. Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and seventy (A. jj. istoi. DANIEL M. FOX, 5 31 It Mayor of Philadelphia. UUMBER. 1870 8PRUCB JOIST. SPRUCE JOIST. HEMLOCK. HEMLOCK. 1370 1 OTA B2ASONED CLEAR PINK H QwA 10 I v SEASON ED CLEAR PINK. 10 I U CHOICE PATTERN PIN IS. SPANISH CEDAR, FOR PATTERNS. RED CEDAR. 1870 FLORIDA FLOORING. FLORIDA FLOORING. CAROLINA FLOORING. VIRGINIA FLOORING. DELAWARE FLOORING. ASH FLOORING. WALNUT FLOORING. FLORIDA STEP BOARDS. RAIL PLANK. 1870 1 QTA WALNUT BOARDS AND PLANK. 1 QwA 10 I U WALNUT HOARDS AND PLANK.10 U WALNUT BOARDS. WALNUT PLANK. 1870 UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. UNDERTAKERS' LUMBER. RED CEDAR. WALNUT AND PINE. 1870 1870 SEASONED POPLAR. SEASONED CHERRY. 1870 ABU. WHITE OAK PLANK AND BOARDS, HICKORY. 1 QTTA CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 1 OTA 10 I U CIGAR BOX MAKERS' 10 I U SPANISH CEDAR BOX BOARDS, FOR SALE LOW. 1870 CAROLINA SCANTLING. CAROLINA H. T. 81LLH, NORWAY SCANTLING. 1870 1870 CEDAR SHINGLES. CYPRKS8 SHINGLES. 1870 UAVUS. BROTHER A CO., No. ssou SOUTH Street in PAVEL PLANK, ALL THICKNESSES 1 OOMMON PLANK, ALL THIOKNES&Iail. 1 OOMMON BOARDS, land 8 SIDE FKNOK HOARDS. WHITE PINK F1AJOR1NG BOARDS. YELLOW AND SAP PINK i LOOR1NGS. UK and sfe BPftUUK JOIBT.AIX SIZES. H KM LOOK JOIST, ALL RIZFJS. PLASTERING LATH A SPECIALTY, Together with a natal assortment of Building Lumber lor aaie low r tA. . T. W. SMALT4, 6 91 dm No. 1715 RIDGE Avenue, noitb of Peplar St. United States Builders' Mill, FIFTEENTH Street below Market. ISLER & BROTHER, PROPRIETORS. 4 29 3m Wood Moulding s, Bracket and General Turning Wortf, Hutti-rail balusters and Newel Ponta. A LARGE ASSORTMENT ALWAYS ON HAND. BUILDING MATERIALS. E. R. THOMAS & CO., DIALERS IN Doors, Blinds, Sash, Shutters, WINDOW FRAMES, ETC., V. W, CORNER OP EIGHTEENTH and MARKET Streets 4121 PHILADELPHIA. LEGAL NOTIOES. TN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS FOR A THK OITY AND COUNTY OK PHIL A UKLFUI 4.. C'AKOLINH ALt.Lbl A (illPATRIU, fay hor next friend, JOHN W. SMITH. . MOSK3 O. UILPA- 'I RIO. Id Divorce, of Oecttiulwtr Term, lurit, No. . To AlOhtS O. (.ll.PATKIU. KwiHmdaot : PleaM take no(ie tbt tbo Court liu Kmnuxi m ule upon yuo to itiow hum why a divorce a vinculo nutlriiuouii bould not bo decreed in Uie above cue. Returnable SATURDAY, Juue 4, 17U, t 10 o'clock A. H., penuiul erviue ukviua failed ou account of yuur bbenu. .1 AM KS W. i'AUI.. t23tatb2w Attorney- tut LibeUaat. OORDAOE, ETO. WEAVER & CO., It 01 II MANUFACTIJBERH AND , 811 IP ClIACVL.I2ItB, No. so North WATER Street and No. 23 North WHARVES, Philadelphia. ROPE AT LOWEST BOSTON AND NEW YORK PRICES. 41 CORDAGE. Manilla, Siial and Tarred Cordage) At Lowest New York Priee and Freight EDWIN II. FITLER eV I O Factory, TEBTH St. and GKRMANTOWH Avenue, Store. Wo. S3 V. WATER Bt and 82 N. DEL AW ARB Avenue. SHIPPING. -fffr LORILLARD'8 STEAMSHIP LINE FOB NEW YORK are now receiving freight at 5 cents per 100 pound. 9 cents per toot, or 1-9 cent per gallon, ship option. INSURANCE ' OF 1 PER CENT. Extra ratee on email packages Iron, metals, eto. No receipt or bill of lading signed for tees than 60 cents. The Line would call attention of merchant generally to tbe fact that hereafter the regular shippers by this line will be charged only 10 cents per 100 lbs., or t oents pel foot, during the winter seasons. For farther particulars apply to JOHN F. OIIL, 888 PIER 19. WORTH WHABVK& KRRfc PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN LlkitoMAIL STEAMSHIP OOMPANV'R RKUIT. UK LLKUS. QUEEN STREET WHARF. Tbe YAZOO will mil for KKW ORLEANS direct, on THURSDAY, JunelH.atS A. M. The ACHILLES will sail from NEW ORLEANS, via HAVANA.on Juno The TONAWANDA will sail for SAVANNAH en SATURDAY, June 4, at 8 A. M. The WYOMING will sail from SAVANNAH on SATURDAY. June 4. The PIONEER will sail for WILMINGTON, N. O., on SATURDAY, June 4. at 6 A.M. Through bills of lading signed and passage ticket sold to all points Booth and West. J1ILLH OF LADINU SIONF.D AT QUEEN STREET WHARF. h'oT freight or passngn, apply to WILLIAM L. JAMES, General Agent. 4 28 No. 130 South THIRD Street. fffU PHILADELPHIA AND CHARLES TON STEAMSHIP LINE. Tills line is now composed of the following first-clas StoaniKbips, sailing lrom 1'IK.R 17, below Spruce street, on i'KIDAY of each week at 8 A. M. : ASHLAND, 800 tons, Capt. Crowell. J. W. KVKRMAN, 613 tons, Capt. Hinckler. FROMKTliKUN, rt)0 tons. Capt. Uray. JUNK, 1X70. Prometheus, Kridny, June 3. J. W. Kvennan, Friday, June 10. Prometheus, Friday, June 17. J. W. F.verman, Friday, June 24. Through bills of lading given to Columbia, H. O., the in terior ot Georgia, and all points South and Southwest. Freights forwarded with promptness snd despatch. Rates as low as by any other route. Insuiance one half per cent., effected at the office in fa-nt-class companies No freight received nor bills of lading signed after 3 P. M. on day of sailing. No. 8 DOCK Street, Or to WILLIAM P. OLYDK A CO. No. 13 S. WHARVES. WM. A. COURTBNAY. Agent in Charleston. bitt Tm? r TVtrr? pnnr iwn ninrffwa .TOWN. Innmn line of Mail Steamers are an. pointed to sail as follows: City of Baltimore, via Halifax, Tuesday, May 81, 1 P.M. Oityof Brooklyn, Saturday, J une 4, 9 A. M. Oityof BriiHseli, Sntnrday, June It. at 1 P. M. Ftua, via Halifax, Tuesday, June 14, 1 P. as And each succeeding Saturday and alteraat Tuesday from Pier 46, North Hirer. RATKS OF PA8SAGH. BT TOT) UAH, STEA1UCB BAIUXO EVT.BT SATUflDAT. Payable in Gold. Payable in Currency. FIRST CABIN $100 I BTKKUAUIs ...31 To London. 106 To London 40 To Paris 116 I To Paris it FASSAGg BT THE TUEUDAT VTEAMEB, VIA HATJTAX. FIRST CABIN. 8TCERAGE. Pavahla in flnlit. Parable in Cnrrano. Liverpool. Liverpool CM Halifax 80 St. John's, N. F., ( Halifax 11 St. John's, N. F., j r.y eranon rtt earner....) Dy Brancn steamer... . Passengers also iorwarded to Havre. Hamburg. Bremen. to., at reduced rates. Tickets can be bought here at moderate rates by person wishing to send for their friends. For further partioolars apply t the Oompanr Offices JOHN G. HALE, Agent, no. 16 Broadway, N. Y. No. lfi Broadwav. urto it O'DONNKLL A FAULK. Agent. Ho. m OHKSNUT Street. Philadelphia. ffrfU PHILADELPHIA, RICHMOND, m-1. i iVS t1g" NORFOLK STEAMSHIP LINK, THROUGH FREIGHT AIR LINE TO THE SOUTH AND WF8T INCREASED FACILITIES AND REDUCED RATES FOR 1H70. Steamers leave every WKDNF.SD AYand SATURDAY at 11 o'clock noon, from FIRST WHARF above MAR- KKT Street. R FT URN I NO, leave RICHMOND MONDAYS and THURSDAYS, and NORFOLK TUESDAYS and 8A TURDAYB Ne Bills of Lading signed after 13 o'clock on sailing d THROUGH RATES to all points in North and South Carolina, via Seaboard Air Line Railroad, oonneoting as Portsmouth, and to Lynchburg, Va., Tennessee, and tho West, via Vir. inia and Tennessee Air Line and Richmond and Danville Railroad. Freight HAN ULKD BUTONOE. and taken at LOWER RATK8 THAN ANY OTHER LINK. No charge for commibaion, drayage, or any expense of trsusfer. ... . , . bteaniships ineuie at lowest rates. Freight received daily. K Late Room accommodations for passengers. Ciate w WILLIAM P. OLYDK i CO., No. 13 8. WHARVHSand Pier 1 N. WH ARVRd. W. P. PGR I ER, Agent at Richmond and City Point. T. P. CROWELL A CO., Agents at Norfolk. o 1 ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE. ,uu a w NFRAL TRANSATLANTIC OOMPANY'8 MAIL STEAMSHIPS BETWEEN NEW YORK AND HAVRE. CALLING AT BREST. The splendid new vessels on this favorite tout forth Continent will sail from Pier No. 60, North river, every Saturday. PRICE OF PASSAGE In gold OR HAVRP. First Cabin i1' I Second Cabin $86 TO PARIS, (Including railway tickets, furnished on board). First Cabin $145 1 Second Cabin (86 These steamers do not carry steerage passengers. Medical attendance free of charge. American travellers going to or returning from tbe con tinent of Europe, by taking the steamers of this line avoid unnecessary risks from transit by English railways and crossing Ui channel, besides saving time, trouble, and expense. tiF.ORG K MACKENZIE. Agent, expense. Ne. 58 BROADWAY, New York. For passage in Philadelphia apply at Adams ExureaB Company, to " LEAF, 187 No. 330 OH KSN UT Street. FOR NEW YORK, via Delaware and Raritan Canal. iFXPKEKS STEAMBOAT COMPANY. 'i i.u htujini ProDellera of the line will commence load ing on the Mh instant, leaving daily as usual. THROUGH IN TWENTY FOUR HOURS. Goods forwaided by all the lines goinecntof New York North, East, or W est, free o( commission. Freights received at low rates. WILLIAM P. CLYDE A Co., Agents, No. 13 South DELAWARE Avenue. JAMES HAND, Agent. No. 119 WALL Street. New York. ? xTUMir vnnv rr riffT tint And Rarilan flnna!. SW1FTSURK TRANSPORTATION COM- f a iy. DESPATCH AND SWIFTSURE LINES, Leaving daily at li M. and 6 P. M. The steam propellers of this company will commence oading on the Bin of March, 'through in twenty-four boors. Goods forwarded to any point free of commissions. Freights taken on accommodating terms. Apply to WILLIAM M. BAIRD A CO., Agents. 4 No. lUi South DELAWARE Arena. DELAWARE AND CHES APEAKE 14 1 sexMsBssxBsWtaaasKV I STEAM TOWBOAT OOMPANY.-Barge towed between Philadelphia. Baltimore, Uavre de-Grace, Delaware City, and intermediate point. wiuiim r. JL.r uk. a ciu., aguuia. Captain JOHN LAUGHLIN, Superintendent. Othue. No. 18 South Wharvee. Philadelphia. 4 11 NEW EXPRESS LINE TO 'Alexandria, Georgetown, and Washington. ' 1) ).. via Chiukiid.kt and Delaware Canal. with ixiunectiona at Alexandria from the most direct route for Lynchburg, Bristol, Knoxvilie, Nashville, Dai ton, and the frouthwust. Steamers leave regularly every Saturday at noonfroia) the first wharf above Market street. Freight reived d.ilrvILUAM p rjypg 0O.. No 14 North and South WHARVES. HYDE A TYLLR, Agents at GooirfuWun: iL, ELDRIDGE A CO., Ag Ut Alexandria. 6Ii
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